Elif Batuman Quotes
I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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If there's one thing that 2009 showed us, it's that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea.
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My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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Life was so easy before I became an actor. I could talk to anyone, and no one bothered. I keep thinking to myself, 'Should I not be myself,' but I won't do that.
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It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.
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I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.
