Yevgeny Baratynsky Quotes
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
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I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
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Hope is not a matter of age.
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Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.
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Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
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I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.
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I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.
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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
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If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
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Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
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I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?
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The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.
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There's only one way to prepare for playing beach volleyball, and that's by getting in the sand.
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When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Don't separate your life, the life that you're going to make with this child, from the things that you are and what you want to do.'
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Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.
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I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
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Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
