Natan Sharansky Quotes
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.
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I'm not a huge fan of my work.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.
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I was definitely a Daddy's boy.
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I started karate in middle school when my parents wanted me to babysit my younger brother. He was a little troublemaker, so they wanted me to make sure the class was going okay. I ended up being way more into it than my brother.
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An unhappy childhood was not an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.
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Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.
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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
