Elif Batuman Quotes
You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
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Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
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I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.
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For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes.
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I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
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It worked!
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The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
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We had a mission at PayPal - which was to create a new financial system, a new world currency, and we failed. We were a financial success, but we didn't succeed at the purpose of our company.
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Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing.
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When I was first thinking about what would become Venture for America, I was trying to figure out how to solve a problem - that our top young people were being driven to roles that did not, to me, address the needs of our time. That VFA would be a non-profit just seemed like the most efficient way to solve the problem.
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The summer lasted a long long time, like verse after verse of a ballad, but when it ended, it ended like a man falling dead in the street of heart trouble. One night, all in one night, severe winter came, a white horse of snow rolling over Bountiful, snorting and rolling in its meadows, its fields.
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You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.
