Svyatoslav Vakarchuk Quotes

People love honesty, people love sincerity. One of the problems Ukrainian politics has now is a total lack of authenticity.

Svyatoslav Vakarchuk Okean Elzy

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• I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.

  

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• That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.

  

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• In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

  

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• Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

  

  Ice T
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• The verdict of the world is conclusive.

  

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• Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
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• Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
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• There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

  

  Samora Machel
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• It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

  

  Fay Wray
  • Great
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• When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?

  

  Parker Harris
  • Time
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• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Suffering
  • End

• When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Picture
  • Sound
  • Finished

• When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
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• Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Music
  • Like

• I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Fashion
  • Against
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• The advantage comes out of the capability of Indian engineers and the competitiveness of their capabilities and the cost at which they can create those capabilities.

  

  Baba Kalyani
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• We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head.

  

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• It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect – it's like we're making a product.

  

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• I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

  

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• This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Father

• Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

  

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Mistrust

• People love honesty, people love sincerity. One of the problems Ukrainian politics has now is a total lack of authenticity.

  

  Svyatoslav Vakarchuk Okean Elzy
  • Politics
  • Problems
  • Authenticity