Elif Batuman Quotes
Everyone has a certain amount of bad writing to get out of their system.
Elif Batuman
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When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
Adam Lambert
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
Daley Thompson
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
Zygmunt Bauman
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
Katee Sackhoff
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A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
Xenophon
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Pablo Casals
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
Zac Goldsmith
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I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red.
Laura Linney
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
Larry Wilmore
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
