Elif Safak Quotes
I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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There is no such thing as being too independent.
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I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.
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Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
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I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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I do have a sister - I have two sisters.
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I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.
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I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.
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I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.
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As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.
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Each of us inevitable;Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.
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These masters of the universe must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put at risk... The Tories won't say anything about the current crisis as they are completely in the pockets of the hedge funds.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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Nicht das Bewußtsein bestimmt das Leben, sondern das Leben bestimmt das Bewußtsein.
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If the Church, white or black, is to express the true philosophy of Jesus Christ, Himself a worker, it will not lend itself to the creed of oppressive capitalism which would deny to the servant his just hire.
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You ask my wife or my two sons, and they'll tell you that I ain't free with the money.
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It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.
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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
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The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.
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The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
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I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.
