Alexandra Kollontai Quotes
I wanted to be free. I wanted to express desires on my own, to shape my own little life.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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Too clever is dumb.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
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I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.
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If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.
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I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.
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I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.
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You know what daring really is to me? It's maybe much more simple: the willingness to get up and try it again. It's not about whether or not you fall down, it's how you get back up. And I've taken quite a few tumbles, myself.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work.
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In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.
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I wanted to be free. I wanted to express desires on my own, to shape my own little life.
