Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.
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No problem is too big to run away from.
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You can't get anywhere in life without taking risks.
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It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region are making by giving a chance to women.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
