Peter Kropotkin Quotes
Practised for centuries, repression has so badly succeeded that it has but led us into a blind alley from which we can only issue by carrying torch and hatchet into the institutions of our authoritarian past.Peter Kropotkin
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
Edmund Phelps -
Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
Fatema Mernissi -
I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
Nathan Gamble -
Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
A. N. Wilson -
I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
Jaclyn Smith -
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang
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When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
R. Lee Ermey -
The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
Caitriona Balfe -
The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
Dan Savage -
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke -
There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
Zhang Ziyi -
I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
Kate Moss
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
Natalie Wood -
I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
Manolo Blahnik -
I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
Ed Bradley -
Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.
Adam Hughes -
If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.
Odette Annable -
My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.
Kate Christensen
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It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
Mallory Ortberg -
I do feel like 'The Dark Knight' is a great film, but that Batman in there? He's almost like Robocop to me. He's almost robotic looking; he's got this surgical approach to everything... He's almost not human. That's supposed to be his whole point: he's supposed to be the most human of superheroes.
Lee Bermejo -
If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
Salma Hayek -
We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
G. M. Trevelyan -
Practised for centuries, repression has so badly succeeded that it has but led us into a blind alley from which we can only issue by carrying torch and hatchet into the institutions of our authoritarian past.
Peter Kropotkin