Elif Batuman Quotes
There's a lot to be said for an American-style liberal-arts education, which prevents young people from professionalizing right away.
Elif Batuman
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Salmon P. Chase
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
Laura Wade
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
Taylor Caldwell
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
Rakul Preet Singh
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
Barbara Demick
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
Madeleine Albright
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We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.
Ted Yoho
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Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.
Ian K. Smith
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'Long Black Train' was inspired by a vision that I had of a long, black train running down this track way out in the middle of nowhere. I could see people standing out to the sides of this track watching this train go by. As I was walking, experiencing this vision, I kept asking myself, 'What does this vision mean and what is this train?'
Josh Turner
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People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.
Pat Summitt
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There's a lot to be said for an American-style liberal-arts education, which prevents young people from professionalizing right away.
Elif Batuman
