Eduard Shevardnadze Quotes

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

Eduard Shevardnadze

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• I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Public

• I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Like
  • Things
  • Characters

• I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Political

• I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Hate

• I don't eat red meat.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Red
  • Eat
  • Meat

• I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Pain
  • Very

• There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Death
  • Man
  • Nothing

• You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • City
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Writing
  • Private

• All of life is a foreign country.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Country
  • Life Is A

• It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Money
  • Kid
  • Easier

• To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

  

  Quintilian
  • Man
  • Swear
  • Honorable

• I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Together
  • Weird
  • Knife

• Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • Power
  • Superhero
  • Days

• When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • English
  • Author
  • Kitchen

• I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • World
  • Matter
  • Seeing

• I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Material
  • E-mail

• Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Woman
  • Beauty
  • Contemplation

• I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.

  

  Kaskade
  • Great
  • Music
  • Stand

• I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Idea
  • Audience
  • Resonate

• Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers demand special exceptions be made for religious ideas is because they know full well that their ideas don’t hold up well under scrutiny.

  

  Amanda Marcotte
  • Idea
  • Criticism
  • Scrutiny

• I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Casualties