Boris Pasternak Quotes
Am I a gangster or a murderer? Of what crime do I stand Condemned? I made the whole world weep At the beauty of my land.

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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.
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Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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Let me say that if the political arena is your choice as you work to keep our democracy strong and our essential freedoms accessible for all, then that is what you should do, and I salute you. We need champions in all walks of our civic discourse.
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Am I a gangster or a murderer? Of what crime do I stand Condemned? I made the whole world weep At the beauty of my land.