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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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
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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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This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.
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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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We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.
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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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Kids are born into the situation they're born into, and obviously, they have no control over that. And we, as adults, it's up to us to take care of kids - that's part of your moral responsibility. I always tell people, 'There's two groups we should take care of - old people and young people.'
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One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.
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We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date.
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Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.
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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.
