Joseph Stalin Quotes
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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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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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, 'It could have been much better.'
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to do but write.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.
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The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
