Joseph Stalin Quotes
Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.
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We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: - the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, - the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little.
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Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.
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We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.
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For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.
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Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.
