Anne Applebaum Quotes
A lot of the Russian economy is built around people who are one way or another milking the state and taking money from the state and recycling it into their private bank accounts. And there are a lot of people who are taking advantage of that, so it's not just one person. It's a kind of web of people doing that, and that's how the system stays in power and how people stay in control.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
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Caffeine. The gateway drug.
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It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.
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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
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I really like cable T.V.
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To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that's the biggest honor as an artist.
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Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.
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Money for me has only one sound: liberty.
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I don't know where actors go after they die, but I know people who help other people have a nice place to go. And I would like to go there if I can.
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I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.
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A lot of the Russian economy is built around people who are one way or another milking the state and taking money from the state and recycling it into their private bank accounts. And there are a lot of people who are taking advantage of that, so it's not just one person. It's a kind of web of people doing that, and that's how the system stays in power and how people stay in control.
