Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Quotes

We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It’s easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

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• I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

  

  Irwin Thomas
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• Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

  

  Maj Sjowall
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• I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.

  

  Randall Park
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• I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

  

  Walther Bothe
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• I never try to follow a trend or fashion.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

  

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• I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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• I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Life
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• My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

  

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• Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

  

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• The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Real
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• I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Music
  • Mind
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• My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

  

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• Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.

  

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• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

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• I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

  

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• If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

  

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  • Different
  • Words
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• I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.

  

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• Just think for a moment if science really could move in the field of authenticity of works of art. There would be a cultural revolution to say the least, but also, I would say, a market revolution, let me add.

  

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• I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

  

  Abbie Cornish
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• Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

  

  Billy Gibbons ZZ Top
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• We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It’s easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • People
  • Strong
  • Evil