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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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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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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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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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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For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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If you go through some big corporate change, it's just not going to be the same. If we sold to Yahoo, they would have done something different; if you want to continue your vision of the company, then don't sell because there's inevitably going to be some change.
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A lot of people think technology is a solution, but it's really just a canvas for your work. It can make good things amazing and bad things terrible. Facebook allows you to have access to mass audience really quickly if you do creative really well.
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Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.
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Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
