Sergey Lavrov Quotes
It's our job to do everything possible to keep the international community's focus on MH17. That's our obligation to the victims and their loved ones.
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.
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I would love to be an amazing singer. I take voice lessons. It's good to have as a dancer - to be able to sing and act, too, because for a Broadway show or musical, you have to be able to do everything.
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The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries.
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We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
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I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.
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I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.
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Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
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But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.
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I would suggest that just as women who make it in the world of business need male business mentors, perhaps men who make it in the world of emotions will need female emotional mentors.
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For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.
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Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.
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Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.
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I always doodled as a kid while I was talking on the phone or watching TV.
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Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
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It's our job to do everything possible to keep the international community's focus on MH17. That's our obligation to the victims and their loved ones.
