Natan Sharansky Quotes
The conviction that freedom is a universal desire is not the property of any political camp. ... Yet those who hold it remain a precious few, outnumbered many times over by the skeptics who don't.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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When the desire is born, right away you start counting yourselves a failure, because you've got this desire that hasn't been satisfied. Know that you never get it done! And since you never get it done, it's time to stop being unhappy about what's undone, because most of it is undone! You are an eternal being. Most of it is undone. Instead of taking score about what's been achieved - we want you to start feeling anticipation about what is still to arrive.
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Reading should be a repeat performance.
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Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.
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The conviction that freedom is a universal desire is not the property of any political camp. ... Yet those who hold it remain a precious few, outnumbered many times over by the skeptics who don't.
