Alexandra Kollontai Quotes
My life was as crammed with strenuous work and highly interesting experiences alike.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
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I never expected to make a lot of money from music.
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If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.
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I want to leave this company in the best possible shape.
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One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.
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That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my mom would take milk and put turmeric in it. That was our medicine. That was the cure-all. Some people turn to Robitussin.
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The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.
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My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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There were times when I'd go to lawyer auditions, and everyone's in a suit, and I'm covered in concrete and paint.
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Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.
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My life was as crammed with strenuous work and highly interesting experiences alike.
