Svetlana Alexievich (Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich) Quotes

Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now.

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• Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

  

  Dan Lipinski
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• I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
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• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
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• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
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• At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.

  

  Sally Yates
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• No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your work so much, why deal with where to show, how to show, what to do? If the artist finds the right gallery which respects their work and gives them that freedom to do whatever they want to do, the artist can focus on his work.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
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• My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.

  

  Barbara Cooney
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• It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• The name of an iron man goes round the world. It takes a long time to forget an iron man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• But the challenge must be faced squarely. I believe we can overcome it through our own efforts. We must do so. They key is our national power. Take courage from our national pride and traditions, no matter how thorny the road to independence may be.

  

  Park Chung-hee
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• The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.

  

  Bob Marley
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• Laws assure animals of protection – formally, officially, set down in black and white. But in the long run, the best protection is the human heart.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
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• He was an amazing father. I clutched my memories of him to my heart for so long, but he's a part of the world.

  

  Jennifer Grant
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• I've been really lucky to play sort of a diverse array of characters over my relatively short career, although it feels really long.

  

  Allison Scagliotti
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• I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.

  

  Jan Hammer
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• A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• 'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone from desperate to merely painful - and, while fascinating, it is never entertaining or redemptive. But if you want an unadorned portrait of American life (at least in some places) at the beginning of the 21st century, this is the book for you.

  

  Jane Smiley
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• From 1989 to 2000, I was focusing in on my children. I hadn't realized the world had changed a lot. AIDS had happened, for starters, and so many people in the arts died or were affected.

  

  Daphne Guinness
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• Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Important
  • Success

• Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now.

  

  Svetlana Alexievich
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Road