Svetlana Alexievich (Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich) Quotes
All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
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If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
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I'm good at keeping secrets.
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Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
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A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.
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At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.
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It's a beautiful drive across the United States. It's so interesting. I'm a proud Canadian, and there are so many beautiful parts of Canada, but the United States also has incredible diversity in its landscape.
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Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.
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A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, 'In silence.'
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The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.
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All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history.
