Svetlana Alliluyeva (Lana Peters) Quotes
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
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We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I made every mistake you could possibly make. It was a total disaster as a piece of work, and yet, you know, it was ambitious in some way.
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I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.
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I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
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Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or 8 on till about 15 or 16, that's all I listened to.
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I don't know anything about propaganda for Chinese reunification. I only know about charity and environmental work. I just want to do good.
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It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.
