Ahmet Davutoglu Quotes
Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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I still come out to music that's in Spanish. There's no denying who I am, but I've just made it to where my performance is so anybody can understand it - whether you're 10 years old or 80 years old.
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
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I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.
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Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.
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Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.
