Vladimir Lenin Quotes
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.
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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
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Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion.
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My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther.
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I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.
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People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.
