Maxim Gorky Quotes
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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I think I've been a great citizen.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I don't see myself ever selling Republic or AutoNation.
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Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
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A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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I eat a bit too much; my teeth aren't perfect; I've got eye bags. I look like a normal 39-year-old woman - but in England, no one minds that.
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The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.
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I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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Pelorat sighed. 'I will never understand people.' 'There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.'
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I think everybody should go to high school. It's horrible, and it unites you with other people.
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Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.
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If anyone want to become a socialist in a hurry, he should come to the United States.
