Vladimir Putin Quotes
People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
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I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from nothing to the top; they think you start at the top.
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Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.
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Kids don't hesitate to ask questions. And it's a great honor to have the kids say, 'Your books have made me trust you.'
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Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.
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You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.
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Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.
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Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
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He took a lie detector test. I had him take a polygraph, which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs (laughter).
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'A splendidly inept thing,' Sylveste said, nodding despite himself.'What?''The human capacity for grief. It just isn’t capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn’t just level off-it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.'
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I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.
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Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
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People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.
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Can any one feel any respect for a government that accords rights only to the privileged classes, and none to the workers?
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The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.
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They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
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People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.
