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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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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Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.
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Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.
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Intentions are invisible but they are the true test of character.
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Putin is not a politician. Putin is a KGB agent. And whatever he does is provocations, which KGB is usually involved in.
