Elif Safak Quotes
When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened.
Elif Safak
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I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.
Rafael dos Anjos
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I'm interested in seeking projects no matter where, no matter if it is in the United States, whether in Chile, whether in Venezuela.
Kate del Castillo
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It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.
D. B. Sweeney
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I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.
Harold Brodkey
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Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.
Olivia Thirlby
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Trump is a potential disaster as commander-in-chief-uninformed, volatile, poor judgment. Hard to believe this is the candidate of a major political party.
Barry McCaffrey
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Leave the earth to the strong and athletic,And the sea to adventure upon.But the sun and the sandNo contractor can copy;We lie in the landOf the lotus and poppy;We vegetate, calm and aesthetic,On the beach, on the sand, in the sun.
Ogden Nash
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If I had as many love affairs as you've given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.
Frank Sinatra
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In 1994, Burns told the editorial board of the Bozeman Chronicle that when asked by a constituent, 'How can you live back there in Washington, DC with all those niggers?' he replied, 'It's a hell of a challenge.' When he was asked about the use of the racial slur, he said: 'I don't know. I never gave it much thought.'
Conrad Burns
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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
Anais Nin
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In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and somebody who plays keyboard and guitar. We try to play all of our parts and flesh it out to get a lush sound, while also keeping the energy of a three-piece punk act. We want to be the best of all possible worlds.
Andrew Dost
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