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Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

~Elias Canetti

Topics: Animal Being Closely Feel Fun Human Human Being Inside Making Observe Sitting Were Whenever You

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Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles.

~Elie Saab

Topics: Being Chance Different Different Ways Get Given Hear Ideas Know Known Labels Me Myself New New Ideas New People People Referred Think Titles True Want Ways Who Without Word Worldwide

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I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Being Dustin Hoffman Explain Explode Footprints Human Human Being Intelligence Keep Leaving Man Moon People Period Rain Things Trying Vacuum

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'Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: About Anguish Being Girl Gone Good Good Husband Good Wife Husband Impossibility Much Near Wife

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I love the novelist's freedom of going into different people's subjectivity and being able to work with them as characters.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Able Being Characters Different Freedom Going Love Novelist People Subjectivity Them Work I Love

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I don't believe in being ashamed about not having read things.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: About Ashamed Being Believe Having Read Things

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Being in a heterosexual relationship for a woman is always implicitly a little bit humiliating.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Always Being Bit Heterosexual Humiliating Implicitly Little Little Bit Relationship Woman

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If you are a writer from Turkey, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, you don't have the luxury of being apolitical. You can't say, 'That's politics. I'm just doing my work.'

~Elif Safak

Topics: Being Doing Egypt Just Luxury Nigeria Pakistan Politics Say Turkey Work Writer You

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I saw 'Hairspray' at the Pantages in L.A. It came to the Pantages right before I did the movie, and just being in New York sometimes and seeing the marquees and everything like that, I'm like, 'I really, really have to go experience a Broadway play.'

~Elijah Kelley

Topics: Before Being Broadway Came Did Everything Experience Go Hairspray Just Like Movie New New York Play Really Right Saw Seeing Sometimes York

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As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Am American American Citizen Any Being Blood Citizen Country Hold Laws Liberty Long Myself Please Publish Runs Same Shall Speak Subject Veins Whatever Write I Am

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