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For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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I aspire only to silence.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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I lived in New York City for a while and miss it like it's a person. Although I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, I'm a New Yorker at heart. A stroll through Central Park, a visit to the MET, a show on Broadway. There is no other city like it in the world!
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I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
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I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
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The history of the Welsh, the Irish, the Highlanders, is just the same as that of the Gauls, one of internecine feud, no political cohesion, no capacity for merging private interests, forgetting private grudges for a patriotic cause.
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I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.
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When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.
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I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.
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To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
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Weekends are about replenishment and rejuvenation. Time in Wales would definitely be part of my ideal weekend, at my own hotel, set in 72 acres of absolute gorgeousness. I can already feel the air working its magic, with the sea breeze drifting over us.
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For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.