Elif Batuman Quotes
Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.
Elif Batuman
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
Oriana Fallaci
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. Mencken
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
Mae West
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
Larry King
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
Yair Lapid
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
Kajal Aggarwal
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Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.
James Hogg
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When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.
Danica Patrick
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She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry scholarly monk from the Dark Ages. Denniston: think English preparatory school, stolid country squire. Nothing about his name sounded the least bit romantic.
Regina Doman
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I want to tell girls, it's not about make-up and how you look that's important; you are so much more than how you look.
Katie Taylor
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Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.
Elif Batuman
