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.Anne Applebaum
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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.
Dan Harmon -
A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
Otto von Bismarck -
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.
Zadie Smith -
Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
Yoko Ono -
Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
Naomi Watts -
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.
Vikram Patel
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
Rachel True -
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.
Pablo Sandoval -
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.
Zadie Smith -
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
Damon Galgut -
I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
Vijay Mallya -
The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
L. Frank Baum
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Caffeine. The gateway drug.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
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.
Pat Robertson -
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.
R. L. Stine -
I really like cable T.V.
Sally Field -
I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have three older brothers, so they were a big influence on me. We loved 'Danger Mouse,' and we love 'Monty Python'. We loved any kind of British comedy and 'Wallace and Gromit' and all of that stuff.
Mara Wilson -
One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
Anthony de Mello
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
Kate O'Mara -
I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.
Gabriella Wilde -
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Karl Marx -
My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
Vicky McClure -
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
Jamaica Kincaid -
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.
Anne Applebaum