Vladimir Lenin Quotes
It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
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I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.
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Federal contractors should be model employers in treating all job applicants equitably, ... I am pleased that this settlement will result in 141 women getting jobs and compensation for others who were subjected to an unlawful hiring process.
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What an incredibly proud moment as a Canadian to have the Canadian flag on the left shoulder of your space suit, looking at the Canadian logos on the robotic arm in the payload bay of the space shuttle, and there's the Orbiter Boom Sensor System, which was an extension of the Canadarm to inspect the tiles underneath the orbiter. It struck me that there were more Canadian logos in space than any other country's I saw.
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It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.
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It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
