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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I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless... but still chic!
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The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh.
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I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.
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The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prejudice is pushing women to go home.
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You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.
