Natan Sharansky Quotes
By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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I still keep my accent.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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Venus favors the bold.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.
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What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.
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Thinking about free speech brought me to media regulation, as Americans access so much of their political and cultural speech through mass media. That led me to work on the FCC's media ownership rules beginning in 2005 to fight media consolidation, working with those at Georgetown's IPR, Media Access Project, Free Press, and others.
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Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
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We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.
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By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.
