Svyatoslav Vakarchuk Quotes
We are not here just to speak great words and then say it’s not our responsibility. We are determined to come to power.
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you. So, an actor will treat every film like his last film. That's the way we need to work, and that's the way you can drum up that passion needed to do good work.
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The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.
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America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.
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One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.
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I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
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I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.
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To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention.
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Indian Railways is the responsibility of Lord Vishwakarma. So is the safety of passengers... It is His duty, not mine. I have been forced to don His mantle.
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Women’s genetic celebrity power magnifies men’s protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men’s addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage-thus we either don’t see it, or when confronted, deny it.
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I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.
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God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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We are not here just to speak great words and then say it’s not our responsibility. We are determined to come to power.
