Elif Batuman Quotes

I actually really wish I had written 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying' as an unreliably narrated novel that is also a self-help book.

Elif Batuman

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Our current energy policy is bankrupt.

Jim Costa

EnergyPolicyOurCurrentBankrupt

I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl - when I see it I'm like, oh my God - is these little tight boxers. Don't get me wrong, g-strings are fine, but those cover a little, to where it's just enough.

Jensen Ackles

GirlGodBlueMeSexyEnough

That's not so important to me, that time thing.

Max Cannon

TimeMeImportantThing

I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.

Matthew Perry

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A human being has a lot of sides, like a kind of diversity, so it's like a good side, a bad side, a crazy side, a normal side, like a man-ish side, a woman-ish side.

Shinsuke Nakamura

GoodDiversityCrazyBadKindHuman

There's always a negotiation that goes on to persuade people we are coming to the subject with an open mind but without surrendering too many pawns. We don't want to misrepresent the fact that we will draw our own conclusions.

Louis Theroux

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I'm very peculiar looking.

Josh Thomas

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Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.

Dennis Wilson

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To leave home, it's got to be worth leaving.

Brad Pitt

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I was never particularly wild, just very busy and often didn't think about what I was putting into my body. Today things are very different. I stopped smoking in my late 30s; I avoid wheat and gluten as this makes me feel bloated and sluggish; exercise regularly and bounce out of bed.

Britt Ekland

TodayMeBusyThinkSmokingBody

One doesn't want fashion to look ridiculous, silly, or out of step with the times - but you do want designers that make you think, that make you look at fashion differently. That's how fashion changes. If it doesn't change, it's not looking forward. And that's important to me.

Anna Wintour

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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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