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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The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'
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There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.
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I do not want to be young again.
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Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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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.'
