Fidel Castro Quotes
The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others. We will not behave in foreign places so as to violate our rules and standards here at home, for we know that the trust which our Nation earns is essential to our strength.
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Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
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No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
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Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.
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There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.
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The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
