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 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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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff from the States. 'Legion of Super Heroes,' 'New Wolverine: The X - Men' animated series, 'Afro Samurai' and some live-action stuff, TV shows here and there - I like to mix it up.
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When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.
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It's hard not to read the success of someone like Hilary Mantel as the product of a world that is too nervous, too crazy, and perhaps too interesting for some people.
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I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.
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Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.
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Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
