Catherine the Great Quotes
What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?
Quotes to Explore
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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Music is about the performance.
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Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
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I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.
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The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
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I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.
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You really don’t have a life when you’re working. I always think 'oh, I’m gonna see everybody on my days off. I’m gonna read so many books and see so many films' and then three months go by...
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Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.
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Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.
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It's a bird … it's a plane … no, it's KernelMan, faster than a speeding bullet, to your rescue. Doing new kernel versions in under 5 seconds flat …
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I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story.
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
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I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer. You won't understand any of this, and I'm almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It's really not my fault.
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Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.
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What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?
