Vladimir Lenin Quotes
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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As far as actors who pop up again and again in Japanese dubs, and because they're really good actors, people like Steve Bloom, not only in 'Cowboy Bebop,' but also he's sort of the de-facto Wolverine. If you're doing an animated Wolverine anything, Marvel usually just goes to Steve first because he's recognized as that voice.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.
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I'm obsessed with being human.
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I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.
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It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values.
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The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
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It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
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Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
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Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
