Anna Politkovskaya Quotes
Do you still think the world is vast? That if there is a conflagration in one place it does not have a bearing on another, and that you can sit it out in peace on your veranda admiring your absurd petunias?
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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If the world sees that we can defend our borders... then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally.
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For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.
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Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
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I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.
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I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.
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I think I may not be able to retire.
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I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.
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Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal, toward a healed world.
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I'm not making films just to be bold.
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The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.
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Sometimes people have this notion that improvisation is simply intuitive leaping into the unknown.
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My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.
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Do you still think the world is vast? That if there is a conflagration in one place it does not have a bearing on another, and that you can sit it out in peace on your veranda admiring your absurd petunias?
