Alexandra Kollontai Quotes
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
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You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.
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The bottom line is this: Cash, in modest increments, has a role in any portfolio. But unless you are Warren Buffett, you should limit it to 2 or 3 percent.
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...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power or memory is never heard, never described or passed on.
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Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.
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Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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You need to get to the future, ahead of your customers, and be ready to greet them when they arrive.
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The I is the soul, which endures.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded & colonized, in our determination to make the bombed & defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical & sacred places from which to transform the world.
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Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.
