Vladimir Putin Quotes
My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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I've done 20 takes of a Vine before it goes out.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'
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In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.
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China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.
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The vibe on 'Starboy' comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.
