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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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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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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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
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If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a difference.
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I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
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The best work never was and never will be done for money.
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My life was as crammed with strenuous work and highly interesting experiences alike.
