Bahá'u'lláh Quotes
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
M. F. Husain -
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
Jack Prelutsky -
Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
Hank Johnson -
The world is always terrible.
Salman Rushdie -
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
Jack Henry Abbott
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
Ian Mckellen -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi -
Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
Zoe Saldana -
In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
S. Jay Olshansky -
Acting was something I had to do.
Nancy Marchand
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
Jackie Robinson -
A closed mind is a dying mind.
Edna Ferber -
I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
Nastassja Kinski -
If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
T. C. Boyle -
Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.
Viktor Orban -
While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
Forest Whitaker
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I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.
Beth Gibbons Portishead -
The realm of Suaron is ended! The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
If a democratic society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
Seeing someone dressed up as your character is incredible.
Kelly Marie Tran -
When I worked in the Obama White House, people in national security positions had been uneasy making broad public arguments, particularly about political matters.
Jennifer Palmieri -
Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.
Bahá'u'lláh