Elif Batuman Quotes
Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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Before my marriage, I was really wild, and I was very open about it. My wife knows about it. From the age of 19 to 30, I was this mad, wild person. I just wanted to have a good time, not get serious with anyone. I didn't allow relationships to happen, and I made it clear to whoever I was with.
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Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
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If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.
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Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'
