Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
Warren Spector -
All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
Frances O'Grady -
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
Nancy Pelosi -
To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
Samantha Morton -
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust -
I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
Kate Beckinsale
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
W. H. Auden -
I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
Aaron Sorkin -
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
Quintilian -
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
Walter Benjamin -
I don't want to speculate at this point in terms of who was responsible for this.
Barack Obama -
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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When I was 15, what I wanted in a boyfriend was just that confidence and swagger. I wanted someone who knew what he was doing, because I was just faking it. What I want for my daughter is the exact opposite.
Ayelet Waldman -
Madame Chairman, I presume this is to sweep Britain clean of socialism
Margaret Thatcher -
I would rather spend one day on Maui than 30 days in the hospital.
Charles Lindbergh -
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.
Brian Greene -
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
Jean-Francois Lyotard -
I am not a parliamentarian. I am a politician. Some MPs leave and are itching to get back. I don't feel that. This is just a work environment.
David Blunkett
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The economy is so bad, two Milwaukee men were arrested this week for trying to join ISIS. Did you hear their excuse, they said, 'Hey! Nobody else is hiring!' THAT'S how bad it is!
Jay Leno -
I believe in a society where all people do well. Not just a handful of billionaires.
Anderson Cooper -
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.
Vandana Shiva -
A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Democracy must learn to defend itself.
Mikhail Gorbachev