Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
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If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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There are no secrets - I've been fighting around 154 lbs and 155 lbs, so I feel comfortable at this weight. This is my weight class.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.
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The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
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I think the problem we have as apes is we're asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process.
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The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'
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Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve the unity of the empire.
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But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
