Karl Radek Quotes
The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
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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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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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I never was a very good singer.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
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I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
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You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.
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I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.
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One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour.
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
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I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what's inside a human being.
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The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
