Joseph Stalin Quotes
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I am not honest.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.
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I admire people who are completely at ease with themselves. But I don't have that feeling.
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I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
