Elif Safak Quotes
Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.
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Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.
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Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.
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In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
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Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.
