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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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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Somewhere in this process, I begin reading and showing my book to my audience. When I say my audience, I mean a single imaginary child who is a blend of myself as a young person, the students in my wife's classroom of first- through third-graders, and the students from two classrooms I visit regularly in the Bronx, New York.
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He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
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To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.
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I learned real fast that you need to have a plan of action when changing diapers, or it can get dicey fast.
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Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.
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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.
