Joseph Stalin Quotes
The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.
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I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.
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Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.
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We believe that Apple has it wrong: they've talked about it being the post-PC era, they talk about the tablet and PC being different; the reality in our world is that we think that's completely incorrect.
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And if you don't know? Now you know, nigga.
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Makeup is about balance. When the eye makes a statement, the lips should be quiet.
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If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.
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The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.
