Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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革命战争是群众的战争，只有动员群众才能进行战争，只有依靠群众才能进行战争。
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An excess of boringness does not make a thing interesting except in the driest academic sense. A place is not boring if you have to look really hard for something which is interesting. If there is absolutely nothing interesting about any particular place, then that is a perfectly interesting and quintessentially un-boring place.
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A new species is arising on the planet. It is arising now, and you are it!
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
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'suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.'
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If you try to force yourself into change, then change will never stick.
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It's always inspiring when people all come together and be strong as a group. This is why I feel so strongly to put the message to people that we need to stand together in tough times.
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You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.
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I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.
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[John Calvin's] Humanist training makes him an excellent writer. What is more, he is as relevant today as he was 500 years ago.
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He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.
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If the meanings of true and false were switched, this sentence wouldn't be false.
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The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx.
