Elif Batuman Quotes
You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.Elif Batuman
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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 -
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 -
People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
Kate Morton -
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 -
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 -
All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
Walter Benjamin
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
Ian Anderson -
Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
Edgardo Osorio -
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 -
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 -
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
Yami Gautam
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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.
Mahershala Ali -
For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.
Yuna -
People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
Wendy Liebman -
Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes.
Naomi Klein -
I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
Ian Rush -
It worked!
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Philanthropy has always been something that I've been kind of interested in because I think it was instilled at a very young age through my parents.
Serinda Swan -
I like to find ideas where the research is going to be fun.
Eric Kripke -
My workout is ballet class and rehearsal - I've never belonged to a gym.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
Now don't you dare call me normal. I was never a Pollyanna. There was always a lot of Theodora in me.
Irene Dunne -
I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That's how much I loved you. That's how much.
Rabih Alameddine -
You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.
Elif Batuman