Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.
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If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
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I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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There are so many people that say they are actors and they don't spend for 5 minutes a day working on their craft. You need to train and need to take classes to keep your tools sharp. I'm always in class, whether it's theater or drama workshops.
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Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself.
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Money is not the thing that drives me. I like to develop assets to create value. No one cares how rich you are or what your ranking is in Forbes magazine.
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The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.
