Elvira Nabiullina Quotes
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'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it's its own landlord, it owns the building, it's everything. And it's so separate from what R. Kelly does; that's the great thing about it.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
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I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.
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I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
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In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.
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The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'
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Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.
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It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.
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I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and immoveable, and that the earth is not at the center of same, and that it does move. Wishing however, to remove from the minds of your Eminences and all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion reasonably conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error, heresy, and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church. (Quoted in Shea and Artigas 194)
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No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.
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I do not feel that some things are masculine and others are feminine.
