Vladimir Lenin Quotes
It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!
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If all else fails, birdie the last.
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Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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You become what you think about most of the time.
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In order to reinvent yourself, you have to dig deep and look at yourself. I'd lost my way creatively, and I was humbled, and so I think I got really basic about wanting to depict people in the ways that I find them amazing and funny and emotional and that I can relate to and do from an instinctive, gut place. People trying to survive ... That's what all my movies are about.
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Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at and what you're doing. It's one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window.
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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
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It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
