Olof Palme Quotes
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
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People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
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If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.
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For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.
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I never call myself a singer, ever. I never will. I've always been really embarrassed about my voice. I've never been confident about it. I think it's a little bit better now than when I first started. There are people I admire who are genuinely brilliant singers and I know the difference between what they can do and what I can do.
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If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems.
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I will be the 43-year-old guy in the jumpsuit. In my estimation and my image of myself is that I am 23 and can get away with it. If I didn't have the show, I would be in one right now. It would be denim, but I love a terry.
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The biggest problem that we have on the face of the planet is Iran getting a nuclear weapon.
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We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.
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The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
