Elif Batuman Quotes

Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided.

Elif Batuman

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LifePainReadingThinkingMy Life

I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment.

Jhumpa Lahiri

MeThinkEntertainmentWriteBeing

We all know how the Internet has changed the lives of consumers: it's changed how we communicate, how we shop, how we meet people. It's changed things for businesses too.

Maynard Webb

PeopleInternetKnowMeetThings

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.

John Hench

ArtPeopleArtistInformationMore

It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.

Jean Giraudoux

MenYouthBetterCountryOldWould

The only thing you need to set up a business school is a warm body and a piece of chalk.

John Quelch

BusinessSchoolWarmYouBodyNeed

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

Stephen Baldwin

LifeGodWalkWorldPerceptionPlan

I like pretty conservative guys, good guys. I always look for the qualities I find in my father.

Summer Glau

GoodFatherLookFindConservative

Grilled salmon and brown pasta works for me every time.

Steven Gerrard

TimeMePastaSalmonBrownEvery

I love to play any character that isn't close to my personality.

Trevor Jackson

LoveCharacterPersonalityPlayAny

A lot of young Latino actors have said to me, 'Why can't we get an Oscar? Why can't we be nominated?' And the terrible truth is that if you don't get the right parts, you're not going to be. Are you going to get an Oscar nomination for one of those Judd Apatow movies? Not likely, no matter what nationality you are.

Rita Moreno

TruthMeTruth IsYouYoungMovies

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

Mary Astell

GoodPrinciplesReasonTemporaryFew

It is so important to talk about your cancer and the feelings you have about it.

Mindy Sterling

YouFeelingsImportantTalkCancer

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