Vladimir Bukovsky Quotes
I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.
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The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.
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Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.
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I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.
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I think it's mainly when I need inspiration I look at the old pictures. I don't find it as much in the new stuff. I love Carole Lombard. I think she's wonderful. Gloria Grahame was really great. Garbo. Dietrich. People knew how to create an illusion. Now everything is very realistic and straightforward. Everyone's grunge.
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I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.
