Mikhail Bakunin Quotes
They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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No man may make another free.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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People find it hard to fit exercise into their working-day life. Nine to five jobs take up most of your day, so it's always difficult. But a little can go a long way. It can literally be 10 or 15 minutes of exercise that can be of real benefit.
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I think when a musician loses their inhibition and dives deep into their soul, that's a prayer. It's so powerful that you will touch people whether it's good or bad.
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He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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It's never been our intention to sell millions of albums, but if our message touches that many people, then so be it.
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Political positions do not belong to the officeholder; they belong to the people that place us in office.
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They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.
