Mathias Rust Quotes
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
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I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!
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I wanted to be a professional drummer.
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The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
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Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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I would never say that being Bob Marley's son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.
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I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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Some of my college friends used to laugh at me. But no one's laughing anymore. Now, they all try to get free underwear.
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For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.
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Nine per cent of my viewers are men, of which the majority is, I think, 45 to 50. I like to tell myself it's just my dad watching.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate and get in the flow. It's a regular practice of mine.
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As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.
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My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and by older friends and so on, so I think it is a benediction, and I also think it is a calling, a duty.
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I'd use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens.
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Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.
