Natan Sharansky Quotes
Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.
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I didn't feel comfortable as an executive. I felt comfortable around artists and record producers... and then I found my niche: I gotta find great producers, and I produce them.
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No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.
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The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terrible, prepare for the worst. The meat and potato of our existence right now is influenced by what happened after 9/11 - we put our thinking into protecting borders.
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People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.
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I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.
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Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
