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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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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Thought is something limitless and independent, and has been mixed with no thing but is alone by itself. ... What was mingled with it would have prevented it from having power over anything in the way in which it does. ... For it is the finest of all things and the purest.
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I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
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One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.
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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.
