Milovan Djilas Quotes
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I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.
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Bolivar cannot carry double.
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Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his imaginings. But his dream, setting him apart, helps him to escape the burden of the real.
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To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.
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Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.
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I hope one day it's not revolutionary just to be yourself, but I think that the work that's being done around identity and personhood is so important.I feel inspired by people around me who are part of this movement as well: Hari Nef and Rowan Blanchard and Willow Smith and these kids who are really not going to listen to anyone. "I'm just going to say whatever I feel. I'm going to be myself. And if you don't like it, then, you can go screw yourself."
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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I'm excited by the complete shift in attitudes. Twenty years ago, when I did my first report on colorectal cancer, there was tremendous resistance (from news directors).
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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
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As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.
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Good will cannot flow toward you unless it flows from you.
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Nature itself cannot err.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
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Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight
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Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.
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The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
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Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.
