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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My biggest concern with the whole deal with 'Total Divas' and with WWE - and, you know, they want you to be engaged with social media and all this kind of stuff - I don't want to live my life to entertain other people.
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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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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.
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Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.
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Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.
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As soon as I saw she was playing, winning matches, I just kind of shot a quick e-mail to her agent. Fortunately, I got the positive answer and I think the rest is history.
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Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.
