Vladimir Putin Quotes
We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.
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Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.
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Our electoral process has created perverse incentives that have warped our democracy and empowered special interests and a vocal minority.
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There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.
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Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.
