Turkeys Quotes - Page 15

I have done films where we all thought the director didn't know what he was doing and it is going to be a gobble gobble turkey. And you go and watch it and it is great.

Kevin Spacey

Directors, Watches, Done

Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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I don't make movies. I don't feel that I have to have artistic control. Part of this comes from the fact that the book lives on no matter what Hollywood does to your novel in terms of a film. Now, you try to be careful who you allow to do your film because nobody wants their novel to become a turkey movie. But, on the other hand, it is a crapshot anyway, because even the best people can make a bad film.

Stephen King

Book, Hands, People

Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.

Orhan Pamuk

People, Culture, Literature

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It's so important that you don't put the stuffing in the bird, where in order for the stuffing to get cooked you have to overcook the turkey. It's better to do it on the side.

Ina Garten

Order, Bird, Important

"Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni.

Carl Jung

Sweet, World, Naples

Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The psychogenesis of mental disease”

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I’m Armenian, and April 24th was another commemoration of the genocide of Armenia people by Turkey. The perpetrator never admitted the crime. I was raised with that, this question: how do you actually find the truth of such a traumatic event? I'm obsessed with that issue.

Atom Egoyan

Issues, People, Events

"Atom Egoyan Discusses Seeking Truth With Devil’s Knot". Interview with Meredith Alloway, blogs.indiewire.com. May 13, 2014.

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You probably think Italians like meals with heavy meats and sauces, but they actually prefer light meats. They see turkey as a healthy, light white meat that lends itself excellently to their style of cooking, and they use it in many different ways. Also, Europeans do not celebrate Thanksgiving so they perceive turkey as an all-year round option.

Todd English

Thinking, Light, Years

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I will never forget my first game for England at the World Cup, It was against Turkey... no I mean Tunisia.

David Seaman

Mean, Games, Tunisia

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Besides, many Islamic movements will change as soon as they gain political responsibility. I'm not at all pessimistic in this regard. Just think of Turkey, where the Islamists are now behaving like a sort of Christian Democratic party in Europe.

Zalmay Khalilzad

Christian, Islamic, Party

Source: www.spiegel.de

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unlike other countries, we're not skeptical at all when it comes to EU expansion. In fact, we are in favor of admitting Ukraine and Turkey. In this sense, one can hardly say that we are focusing unilaterally on our own national interests. Austria, for example, has held up the negotiations for Turkey's admission to the EU. Why am I against deeper involvement in the EU? There are several reasons for that.

Lech Kaczynski

Country, Ukraine, Austria

Source: www.spiegel.de

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A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, May, Conformity

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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If any harm is to come to Turkey's border security, if Turkey reaches the conclusion that this garden of peace is being threatened, it is prepared for any eventuality. We will take the necessary measures to reduce the risks related to cross-border security.

Ahmet Davutoglu

Peace, Garden, Risk

"Report: Turkey Considering Invasion of Syria to Establish Buffer Zone". www.haaretz.com. June 29, 2015.

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The Ottoman Empire . . . The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much - were mostly interested in robbing them - and they left them alone to run their own affairs . . . with a lot of local self determination.

Noam Chomsky

Running, Determination, Self

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When considering the Islamic world, Turkey is the best example of a country where democracy irreversibly gained a foothold despite religious and cultural traditions still respected today. With some reservation, this can be said about Pakistan, too, where we can observe dynamic political processes going on [and] governments change as a result of elections. In my opinion, it is up to the ruling elite to initiate cardinal changes.

Garry Kasparov

Country, Religious, Islamic

Source: www.rferl.org

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The Thanksgiving meal should not be treated as a grad school exam or an Olympic dive. Whatever you cook will be good enough - unless you make that Twinkie turkey stuffing we're suddenly hearing too much about.

Mary Schmich

School, Too Much, Hearing

"Thanksgiving Helper Hotline addresses pressing holiday issues" by Mary Schmich, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 21, 2012.

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Germany and Turkey are two countries that need each other. As political leaders we will leave our offices one day, but our people will remain and have to get along with each other. So we shouldnt give them negative messages.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Country, Two, People

Source: www.spiegel.de

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Turkey is the gateway to the east for Europe, and the gateway to Europe for the east. We have a bridging function that Europe shouldn't underestimate.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Europe, East, Underestimate

"If the EU Doesn't Want Us, They Should Say it Now". DER SPIEGEL interview, www.nytimes.com. April 16, 2007.

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If the EU doesn't want Turkey, they should say it now and clearly. If we are not wanted, then both sides dont need to waste their time with negotiations.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Sides, Needs, Want

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Every night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change things. What can I do?" I never hear these questions from peasants in southern Colombia or Kurds in southeastern Turkey under miserable repression or anybody who is suffering. They don't ask what they can do; they tell you what they're doing.

Noam Chomsky

Night, People, Southern

Source: progressive.org

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Looking at polls of Arab public opinion, you look at popular figures, the most popular figure is the prime minister of Turkey, Erdogan, and then it goes down the list. You get Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, you don't get Obama, or in fact any western leader. The public doesn't want the whole imperial project. So if you had democracy, it would be all over.

Noam Chomsky

Leader, Democracy, Public Opinion

Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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If some people keep saying that the press is still not free in Turkey, then I would like to say this: there has been a coup attempt in Turkey. And there are people siding with the coup plotters. And there are - there is also media outlets that have been against - that are against the coup attempt. So my question is that against the media that supported the coup, will the Turkish justice, judicial system, not take any steps? Of course it will.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Media, Justice, People

Source: perspectivebd.com

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When the U.S. asks for the extradition of a terrorist, if Turkey doesn't have that individual on the terror list, what do we say, what do we respond? Now, the individual might not be on your terror list or terrorist list. But if he is on my list, and if we have an agreement on the extradition of criminals, if I make the request, then, well, you should extradite that person. And there has been numerous examples of that mechanism working with many other nations as well, not just the U.S.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Agreement, Might, Lists

Source: perspectivebd.com

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What is the most entrepreneurial country in the Middle East today? It's Lebanon. Which country has no oil or gas? Lebanon. The same was true of Israel, the same was of Bahrain. You could see a real gradation. Turkey, for instance: no oil and gas, very entrepreneurial. You can either dig your future out of the ground or you can unlock the potential of your people.

Thomas Friedman

Country, Real, Israel

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To achieve effectiveness and legitimacy it is time to scrap the right of veto given to permanent members of the UN, or at least severely restrict its use. It is also time to either abandon the idea of permanent membership or broaden it to reflect the rise of non-Western states to the status of global leaders (e.g. Brazil, India, Indonesia, Turkey, South Africa), and to downgrade European representation by either giving the European Union a single seat or rotating a European state among Germany, France, UK, and Italy.

Richard A. Falk

Ideas, Effectiveness, Giving

Source: www.counterpunch.org

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The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in the Soviet Union - who have conducted their arguments with their societies and its political arrangements through their art in subtle, oblique ways. They didn't always have the license to make bold pronouncements about freedom, democracy, Islam, and liberalism, but they exerted another kind of moral authority through their work.

Pankaj Mishra

Art, Past, Egypt

Source: www.guernicamag.com

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