Elif Safak Quotes

It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an article, a novel, an interview, a poem or a tweet you can be sued, put on trial, even arrested. Self-censorship is widespread.

Elif Safak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: turkish
  • Birth: October 25, 1971

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I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself.

Jil Sander

FashionFeelSometimesStatement

Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.

Maya Angelou

PeopleBlackAmericaWhiteLiving

I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.

John Lydon

FreeBelieveAnimalsWildPetsLike

Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.

Steve Buyer

OpportunityResponsibilitySucceed

You don't get John Gotti to testify against his driver. You get the driver to testify against John Gotti.

Trey Gowdy

YouDriverAgainstGetHisTestify

I threw my son, Brandon, a rave for his birthday and I fully set it up like a crazy rave with lights and sound, me and my partner DJ'd - I got Mix Master Mike from the Beastie Boys to come DJ for a bit.

Tommy Lee

BirthdaySonMeCrazyPartnerDJ

At first, I didn't know what to expect but I do say that I love our defensive coordinator, Tim Lewis.

Michael Strahan

LoveKnowSayFirstExpectOur

I don't like doing the same runs. I like to mix it up a lot.

Chloe Kim

DoingSameUpLikeMixLot

We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.

Annie Besant

GodManSpaceCreateProjectRight

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Phillips Brooks

YouOthersBearFaultsYoursWould

I've never made a film that lost money.

Sylvester Stallone

MoneyLostNeverFilmMade

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

Seamus Heaney

ChangeTruthTrustPerceptionNew

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