Nikolai II Aleksandrovich (Nicholas II of Russia) Quotes
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I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.
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When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
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Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.
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Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.
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Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
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Just as one gets the firstfruits of spiritual salvation in the life that now is, so we get the firstfruits of our physical salvation in the life that now is.
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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
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My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.
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The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.
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A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.
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Russia should be an effective and competitive state with a sustainable economy, developed social and political system flexible to changes domestically and globally.
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I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.
