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Elif Batuman Quotes

Awkwardness is the consciousness of a false position.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1977

Topics

Position False Consciousness

My hair can get quite dry, so I condition it in olive oil once a week.

Hair Week Oil Dry Get Olive Oil

When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.

People You Said Want Out Just

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Flower Power Tree Plants Gold Fall

I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to.

Opportunity People Me World Media

For professional athletes, I always think about it in these terms: the most difficult diva of women's soccer would be the easiest NBA player ever.

Women Think Soccer Professional Diva

We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.

Michael C. Burgess

World Medicine Sometimes Strive Too

I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.

Character Truth Think Sides Like

I'm strong enough to guard the big guys and have enough heart to lock them down.

Heart Strong Enough Down Lock Big

A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain a love for life, a love for one's family, a love for where one's really from.

Life Family Love Look Need Starting

Any business that is trying to sell something should be willing to spend a couple dollars for a stock photo to not have ads in it and not distract the user from using the product they're trying to sell.

Business Trying Product Sell Willing

In 2010, I was the star of a sitcom. It came and went pretty fast. But in the months from when I was cast in the sitcom through when it was done airing, my life did change remarkably.

Life Change My Life Fast Done Star

American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.

History Culture American Way Shame

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