Orhan Pamuk Quotes

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

Orhan Pamuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: June 7, 1952

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HeroValueWantUpBelongThings

I had my own ups and downs in getting Indian citizenship. But, ultimately I got it and I am happy about it. I like India. My love is here. I am a proud Indian.

Adnan Sami

LoveI AmLove IsHappyProudIndia

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

Jim Sturgess

GreatMindMeIndependentRecords

Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.

Robert Green Ingersoll

TruthLightManFlameLongLiberty

Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

LoveGunSeePlanetDisappearWould

Yes, there are things that I can't change, but the things I can, I'm going to do everything in my power to work very hard through them and come out stronger on the other side.

Amy Purdy

WorkChangePowerStrongerI Can

And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.

Sun Ra

SpaceChicagoOuter SpaceExperiences

People with high levels of wellbeing have been careful to work out early in the morning and not to have heavy meals throughout the day because you kind of fall off a cliff in terms of your energy by 2 or 3:00 if you have a lunch with a lot of heavy foods.

Tom Rath

WorkMorningDayPeopleLunchYou

The little town I was brought up in, I'd go to the film society to these very extreme sorts of films that you wouldn't normally see in the movie houses. But I never dreamed that I would get into the position to be shooting movies equivalent to the ones I loved as a kid.

Roger Deakins

SocietyLovedYouGoMoviesNever

The first shooter video game stuff which - look, admittedly, I missed that generationally, so it's not a thing for me. I've never played them. I don't really get it. My kids do.

Rob Lowe

MeGameLookMissedNeverFirst

When I became mayor of New York City, I had a $2.4 billion deficit. And everybody wanted me to raise taxes. I said, 'If I raise taxes, I'll drive people out of New York City, and then I'll be raising taxes again.' So what I did was I cut expenses by 15 percent.

Rudy Giuliani

New YorkPeopleCityMeDriveNew

I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material.

Mary Steenburgen

LoveI AmEnoughLuckyTakeJobs

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

Jonathan Kozol

GovernmentPeopleSocietyColorHelp

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