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.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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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.
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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.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.
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The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
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This is the country that we are turning over to young people, and there is going to be no country left at this rate because Trump is destroying the soul of who we are.
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People love Axl [Rose] with the original band, they love him on his own but they want to see him with the original guys.
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We had several hits in the States but probably only one big one in Europe. The crowds are smaller.
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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.
