Buenaventura Durruti Quotes
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.
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You can't hit what you can't see.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.
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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
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It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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I gotta say, I know my strengths, and I know my weaknesses, and, well, Fix-It Felix, I'm not too far from that kid.
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People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.
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The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.
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What was magical at two in the morning was tawdry and cheap and dangerous to your health at two in the afternoon.
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The only church that illuminates is a burning church.
