Elif Batuman Quotes

I do think of 'The Idiot,' in a way, as a self-standing book about a certain struggle to make meaning, the struggle for a girl to find meaning outside of the romance plot.

Elif Batuman

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I love the Victoria's Secret Angels. They're sort of my gorgeous glamour heroes.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

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I try very hard to maintain the confidence of my sources by speaking candidly with them, honoring agreements about the use of our conversation, and practicing journalism in an honest and straightforward way.

John Harwood

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Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!

John Foxe

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I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

John Collison

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I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems.

Robert Morgan

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A lot of times I think the cast members, the lead characters in a show really set the tone for the show. On some shows, the stars of the show will just be whining and complaining and spending the whole time texting their boyfriends on their Blackberries, and there's just no attention given to the work.

Misha Collins

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Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

Janine Benyus

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I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

Debra Winger

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I have a stunt double; his name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously, it's actually been recorded by 'National Geographic.' He calls it the Hammer Fist.

Craig Horner

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The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage. Everything I do on tour is to try and destroy that pretense.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Instead of picking your career and backfilling your life behind that, what if you pick your life and backfill your career with whatever is left over?

Bob Goff

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I think it's nice to have a variety of lineups and formations to use against different opponents, depending on what they bring.

Ali Krieger

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