Vladimir Putin Quotes

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

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• Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • See

• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Black
  • Kind
  • Million

• You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • Trying

• This much have I learned: A man’s life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Life

• Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Logic

• I'm doing a pilot for Comedy Central with the band Steel Panther. They're faux heavy metal. They started as kind of a tribute band out here, or a cover band, and they're funny guys, and they just sort of morphed into their own thing.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Band

• When I was growing up, Belfast City Hall was surrounded by security, and we had no access to it. But now, people come in and out of it all the time. On a nice day, office workers and students sit on the lawn outside and have lunch. It's great to see how Northern Ireland has changed. To be part of that is fantastic.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Good
  • Bad

• There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.

  

  Jerry Bruckheimer

• With the second 'Captain America,' we really pushed the envelope in terms of what this guy is capable of, which I was excited to see. Because in the first 'Captain America,' he's just strong. In 'Avengers,' it was still, in my opinion, a little bit 'punch, punch, kick, kick.'

  

  Chris Evans
  • America
  • Guy
  • Strong

• This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood.

  

  Allison Anders
  • Practice

• To me, sound is a crucial component to, really, any moviegoing experience, but particularly with suspense films or thrillers. I think you need the audience to become subtly really attuned to the soundscape in, like, this uncomfortable way.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Experience

• No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Willomena Frankenburger.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • War
  • Movie

• I mean, I'm very, very competitive.

  

  Phil McGraw

• A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Gay

• I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Happy

• If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.

  

  George Ayittey

• I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.

  

  Christine and the Queens
  • Writing
  • Lost
  • Influenced

• So that might facilitate the admission of out-of-court comments.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Comments
  • Admission
  • Facilitate

• The Far East is of particular significance for us in terms of this region's priority development. Over the last few years, let us say even over the last decades, we were faced with many problems here. We paid little attention to this territory although it deserves a lot more of it, because it concentrates great wealth as well as opportunities for Russia's future development.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Opportunity
  • Attention
  • Problem

• If there ever is government-run health care, the first ones to sign up should be the president and every member of Congress, including myself. You should be able to keep the insurance you've got today, if you like it, and always choose your own doctor.

  

  Mike Ross
  • Health
  • Should
  • Choose

• Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.

  

  Joshua Micah Marshall
  • Cycle
  • Vicious
  • Incompetence

• The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Strengthening
  • Authoritarianism