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 cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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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.
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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 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.
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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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At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- and 18-year-olds, but for some reason I got the part. It made me incredibly unpopular with my peers, but it was the English and drama teachers who stepped in to save me when others wanted me kicked out of the school.
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.
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The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
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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.
