Vladimir Lenin Quotes
It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
Quotes to Explore
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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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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.
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Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.
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Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
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It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
