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.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Wings

• 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.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Faith
  • Christ

• People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

  

  Kate Morton
  • People
  • Writing
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Game
  • Decisions
  • Stock

• 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.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Done
  • Think
  • Gold

• All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Touching
  • Originally

• Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • You
  • Myself
  • Possible

• Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Think
  • Judge
  • Shoes

• 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.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Comedy
  • Best
  • Awards

• The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Man
  • Wisdom
  • Rules

• In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Years
  • Talking

• 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.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Cool

• For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.

  

  Yuna
  • Myself
  • Let Go
  • Insecurities

• People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Trump
  • Two
  • Heroes

• I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Know
  • Connection
  • Lead

• It worked!

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

• When we did 'The Last Picture Show,' the whole cast was unknowns, and we all got careers from it. Well, I don't think this could be done now.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Done
  • Picture

• He who kills the cheer springs for beer.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Beer
  • Cheer

• Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Trying
  • Job

• Although there is no solution that is easy, and there is no one formula that will work for everyone with a heartache or a concern, there is One who cares very much about your situation, and He knows what you should do. That is our Father in Heaven.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Work
  • Father
  • Heaven

• Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Jump
  • Talking

• You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.

  

  Elif Batuman