Ahmet Necdet Sezner Quotes

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

Ahmet Necdet Sezner

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PoliceSocietyMeetModernBeing

Having two children with autism, it makes you really think about how we do relate to each other.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

ChildrenThinkYouTwoAutismHow

There's still a lot of things you can legitimately do to make America safe through electronic surveillance.

Michael Hayden

AmericaYouSafeThroughThingsLot

My wife and I had children when we were children ourselves.

John Updike

ChildrenWifeOurselvesWereHad

Walter Benjamin used to think that languages expand their register thanks to translation, because translation forces ways of using words and structures that were alien to the original speaker of the target language.

Alvaro Enrigue

WordsThinkLanguageAlienTarget

I don't ever use dancers, and when I do, it's literally, like, four break dancers.

Rita Ora

BreakDancersLikeFourLiterally

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

TimeBestTryingBoyPossibleWell

In high school, I would secretly play Joni Mitchell songs all the time. That's when I started singing and playing at the same time, and I got really into doing that.

Julia Holter

TimeSchoolSingingHigh SchoolPlay

My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with it. I say, 'Well, people who love you want you to be happy. But I'm your professor and I'm supposed to be teaching you something.'

Joyce Carol Oates

LoveHappyPeopleBe HappyStory

There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

HistoryTransformationCountryPlace

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

Anne Tyler

ChildrenMeWritingSpeakSelfDown

Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

Anohni

NameChangingBeenLikePassage

People don't follow titles, they follow courage.

William Wells Brown

CouragePeopleFollowTitles

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