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

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Myself

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

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Slavery
  • Stronger

• 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
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• 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
  • People
  • Time
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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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  • Party
  • Wisdom

• 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
  • Work
  • Why
  • Freedom

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

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Long
  • School
  • Home

• 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
  • World
  • Long
  • Live

• 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
  • Great
  • God
  • Long

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

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• 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
  • Believe
  • May
  • Power

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

  

  Bob Marley
  • Life
  • May
  • Road

• 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
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Black

• 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
  • World
  • Long
  • Heart

• 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
  • Long
  • Career

• In the last year of my presidency, I travelled 200 days out of 365. You have to lead a very disciplined life. To be able to do that, I need a lot of sleep. But I have no problems sleeping. On long days, I can easily take a nap for 20 minutes in the afternoon.

  

  Martti Ahtisaari
  • Life
  • Long
  • Sleep

• When I do a project, I like the idea that someone is going to experience the book, someone is going to experience the film, someone else is going to experience a framed photo on a wall, but they are all going to get to the same root thing as long as all of those mediums are exploring it from the same place.

  

  Andrew Zuckerman
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Book

• We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians willing to think in the long-term interest of their people rather than their own.

  

  Jeremy Grantham
  • People
  • Long

• 'And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.'

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Nature
  • Moral

• It's good to be in the news for whatever reason. I can't pretend that I am not enjoying the attention. Being popular is a good thing.

  

  Nia Sharma
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Popular

• We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Priority
  • Crush
  • Priorities

• 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