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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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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Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.
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So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.
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Ticket sales will get higher the day after roasts.
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A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
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Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.
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You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.
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I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
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Once we announce the staff here, in the next week, two weeks, whatever it takes, I think everyone's going to be shocked at how good a staff we put together.
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Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.
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When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.
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People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.
