Svetlana Alexievich (Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich) Quotes
Putin is not a politician. Putin is a KGB agent. And whatever he does is provocations, which KGB is usually involved in.
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Truth is the best defense.
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Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
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Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.
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There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent.
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If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
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An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.
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Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.
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The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.
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I believe that in fact it would be economically reasonable and logical to reach a compromise [on oil production], I am sure that everybody understands this.
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Emotions are the colors of the soul.
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There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries, and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant's ships as soon to him as he can desire: in a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution.
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I look back at the 1990s with its light-wash jeans, and I'm like, 'What...?'
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The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics.
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Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.
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I'm not interested in showing a politician falling over; it's about the issue and making people think differently about that.
