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Like Diogenes, when millennials went on their pursuit to find the one honest man in politics, it was obvious that man was Bernie Sanders. Cenk Uygur
Politics Man Honest Man Bernie Sanders Find Pursuit Like Obvious Millennials Honest
Millennials are much more informed than they get credit for, and many are more politically knowledgeable than older generations. Cenk Uygur
Older More Generations Knowledgeable Than Get Politically Informed Much Many Credit Millennials
You know you're a bigot when you can't take out the word 'Muslim' from a sentence you stated and replace it with 'Jew' and still have it be socially acceptable. Cenk Uygur
You Word Stated Out Muslim Take Know Acceptable Still Replace Sentence Bigot Socially Jew
Phil Griffin, who happens to be the head of MSNBC, is not a liberal or progressive. I worked at MSNBC; I talked to Phil Griffin many times. I know Phil Griffin. He is not remotely progressive. All he cares about is success in his own career. Cenk Uygur
Success Own Cares Liberal Progressive About He Head Remotely Know Talked His Times Happens Griffin Worked Who Many Career Phil
TV has made everyone so vanilla it's nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another. Cenk Uygur
Impossible Made Everyone Anchor Tell TV Vanilla Another Apart Nearly
Whenever people in Washington complain about spending cuts, they mean spending cuts that would affect defense contractors. They want to massively increase spending cuts everywhere else in the budget. Cenk Uygur
People Increase Defense Complain Else Spending Spending Cuts Everywhere Would About Budget Massively Affect Contractors Whenever Want Mean Cuts Washington
When's the last time CNN broke an important story or really made the government angry? I literally can't remember. That's because they're built to be inoffensive. They do the opposite of watchdog journalism. They simply pass on the government's message to their audience. Cenk Uygur
Government Time Angry Remember Made Important Broke Simply Journalism Message Because Audience Pass Built Opposite Literally Story Really Last Last Time
If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story. Elif Safak
Love No Love Between Reader Author Story
Part of me always felt like the other, the outsider, the observer. My father had two sons with his second wife, who I didn't meet until my late 20s. I was always on the periphery. In Madrid, I was the only Turk in a very international school, so I had to start thinking about identity. All these things affected me. Elif Safak
Me School Father Wife Thinking Other Late Meet Madrid About Only Had Outsider Part Observer Sons Like Until Identity Periphery Felt Always Affected His Very Who International Things Start Second Two
Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can learn to change, we can learn to empathize and be more connected with the universe and with humanity. Elif Safak
Me Change Humanity Believe Universe Saved Books More Through Empathize Know Learn Because Stories Happened Us Connected Save
I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language. Elif Safak
Strength Me Satire Writing Language Humor Longing Own Melancholy Dream About More Attached Both Feel Over Sorrow Years Than Irony Prefer Turkish Realized Much English Connected Each
I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee. Elif Safak
Mother Single Independent Intriguing Find Perhaps Because Single Mother Feminist Up Families Did Grow Grow Up Raised
For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God. Elif Safak
God Me Writing Feeling Universe Way One-Way Stories Connected
Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability. Elif Safak
Solitude Writing Lonely Tribute Over Choosing Fun
The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per cent of the process. Work is 80 per cent. The remaining 8 per cent is 'luck' or 'zeitgeist' - in short, things that are not in our hands. Elif Safak
Work Writing Luck Our Way Per Charming More Only Remaining Talent Learn Sounds Than Hands Short Cent Process Zeitgeist Amount Things
When I looked at people like Goya and Pina Bausch, the message I got was just do what you're passionate about. Don't think about what other people are going to say or how they're going to receive your work. Just be your work. Elif Safak
Work You People Just Be Think Other Say About Like Looked Message Got How Passionate Going Just Your Receive
There are two different ways of writing a novel. The first I call the traditional father way, when the novelist slightly situates himself or herself above the text and knows what each and every character is going to do. It's a bit like engineering. I've never felt close to that tradition. I like the second way, which relies a bit more on intuition. Elif Safak
Character Writing Father First Engineering Every Herself Way Bit Ways Slightly Intuition Above More Never Like Call Himself Knows Felt Tradition Traditional Text Close Going Different Which Novel Each Novelist Different Ways Second Two
It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an article, a novel, an interview, a poem or a tweet you can be sued, put on trial, even arrested. Self-censorship is widespread. Elif Safak
You Poet Journalist Country Every Interview Trial Poem Writer Badly Put Self-Censorship Knows Because Arrested Article Tiring Turkish Tweet Even Novel Sued Widespread
English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language. Elif Safak
Time Me Age Language Acquired English Started Third
When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me. Elif Safak
Me Mother Old Language Before Stayed Learned Years Moved Spain Spanish English English Language
Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge. Elif Safak
Freedom Me Writing Language Challenge Thinking Additional Way Gives Like Another
Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture is mostly patriarchal. In general, men write; women read. I would like to see this pattern changing. More women should write novels, poems, plays, and hopefully, more men will read fiction. Elif Safak
Culture Women Will Men Country Changing Books Complex Hopefully Would See About General Poems More Write Written Generations Like Most Mostly Read Readers Passionate However Patriarchal Fiction Pattern Turkey Should Novels Plays
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
Work Politics You Luxury Say Writer Doing Egypt Just Being Turkey Apolitical Pakistan Nigeria
For me, coming from the women's movement, politics is not just about parties and parliament. There is politics in our private space and in gender relations as well. Wherever there's power, there's politics. Elif Safak
Politics Me Women Space Gender Power Relations Our About Parliament Parties Well Coming Private Just Movement Wherever
We should not only look at the short-term economic benefits of fossil fuels but also at the bad news for climate change. We should therefore not greet the fossil fuel age unconditionally. Fatih Birol
News Change Age Benefits Bad Only Bad News Economic Economic Benefits Unconditionally Look Also Climate Climate Change Greet Short-Term Fuel Fuels Should Fossil Fossil Fuel Therefore Fossil Fuels
Renewable energy is no longer a niche fuel. Fatih Birol
Energy Longer Renewable Renewable Energy Fuel Niche
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