Paul Wellstone Quotes
Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
Quotes to Explore
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.
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We didn't want a hybrid of the old stuff. The old records were very dense musically. Now there's a trend towards minimalist sound. That's the main thing.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.
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Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on.
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Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
