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 -
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 -
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
Mae West -
I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
Larry King -
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 -
I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
Kajal Aggarwal
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
Kapil Sibal -
It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
Maisie Williams -
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
Sam Shepard -
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
Maggie Stiefvater
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
Wendell Phillips -
We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
Calvin Johnson -
I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
Rachel Platten -
I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
Karla Souza -
You can stroke people with words.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
Olivia Newton-John
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Jennifer Aniston is one of the most down-to-earth, low-key people I know.
Chelsea Handler -
The bottom line is, whether you're in it or you're searching for it, I believe marriage is an institution worth pursuing and protecting.
Jenna McCarthy -
All TV is now digital. It's a platform ripe for innovation; we just haven't seen any beyond picture quality changes. That's a secular problem.
Mark Cuban -
It was the most pleasurable thing I've ever done, playing this character, and I just remember feeling so at home and so - I don't know, I was just happy - and it just wasn't ever work! It was like a sandbox for me, and I would crack myself up rehearsing.
Jenna Elfman -
Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.
Elif Batuman