Ismail Kadare (Ismail Halit Kadare) Quotes
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.Ismail Kadare
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Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
Barbara Castle -
Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
J. G. Ballard -
Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for Senate candidates who were Tea Party candidates. We spent almost $20 million for House candidates who were Tea Party candidates.
Karl Rove -
I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
Nancy Travis -
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
A. S. Byatt -
I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.
Fleur East
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Learning proceeds until death and only then does it stop. ... Its purpose cannot be given up for even a moment. To pursue it is to be human, to give it up to be a beast.
Xun Kuang -
Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.
Camille Paglia -
Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.
Yoweri Museveni -
Hark, hark! the larkOn windswept barkFreezes against a sky of lead!Now see him stop,Take one small hop,And suddenly keel over dead!
Ogden Nash -
It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.
A. P. Herbert -
We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.
Chris Meledandri
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About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.
David Rakoff -
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
Maya Angelou -
I like vintage dresses that I can just slip on.
Kelsey Chow -
Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.
Jeff Daniels -
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.
Linda Chavez -
I'll tell you what I think in general about people who want to make their Broadway debut that are not trained stage actors. Don't they know, Broadway ain't for sissies? It is a tough gig. You are responsible, physically, mentally, emotionally, for eight shows a week, at the top of your game. It's not easy.
Patti LuPone
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We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.
John Bright -
He just has to do his part, ... He doesn't have to do any more than that. He directs the offense and gets us points. He doesn't have to try to make something happen by himself.
Joe Gibbs -
I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
Pat Summitt -
I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.
Taylor Swift -
I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system!'
Katie Cassidy -
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.
Ismail Kadare