Vladimir Putin Quotes
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.
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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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When you look at the money spent by labor unions for Democrats, it comes as no surprise the Democrats crafted a campaign-finance 'disclosure' bill with the thresholds adjusted to exempt unions.
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I can't see myself without pink lipstick. I can go without it for a couple of days, but if there was no more pink lipstick in this world, I'd be useless. Seriously.
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I love to push myself.
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I don't think there's ever been such a clear choice between radicalism and moderation. I mean, we are dealing with a radical ideologue here.
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We create an image of happiness and success and then we are beholden to it. We tell ourselves stories and sometimes these stories become so strong as to imprison us. Breaking free from our personal fortresses is a long, hard journey, but ultimately what allows one to grow.
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It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.
