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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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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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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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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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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Cape Town, South Africa, was pretty incredible. That's probably the coolest place I have ever been, and the kiteboarding is insane there. It's so windy, so you can get massive air.
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Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
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If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.
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Yoga is not a religion to me.
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No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
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I listen to music two ways: As a person, you have an instinctive, personal, emotional response. But as a music supervisor, you have a secondary response, which is, 'Will this sit well under dialogue?' 'Can people die to this?' 'Can people kiss to this?'
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If technology is not a metaphor for memory, what is it?
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Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
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I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle.
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Privacy is tremendously important. I believe the American people, and all people, should be skeptical of government power, should ask hard questions: What is the authority? What is the oversight? That's the way it ought to be.
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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.
