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.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.
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People want leaders. Not ideologues. Not people whose life experiences have been so narrow that they've been able to maintain the purity of their youthful ideals. Not people whose principal contact with political life comes in the form of speeches and sound bites rather than decisions and responsibilities.
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A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
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You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.
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That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice.
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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.
