Svyatoslav Vakarchuk Quotes
People love honesty, people love sincerity. One of the problems Ukrainian politics has now is a total lack of authenticity.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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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.
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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.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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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?!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.
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You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
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It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.
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Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.
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There are some fantastic parts for older actors.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
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Shiny new real estate may dress up a declining city, but it doesn’t solve its underlying problems. The hallmark of declining cities is that they have too much housing and infrastructure relative to the strength of their economies. With all that supply of structure and so little demand, it makes no sense to use public money to build more supply. The folly of building-centric urban renewal reminds us that cities aren’t structures; cities are people.
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Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.
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People love honesty, people love sincerity. One of the problems Ukrainian politics has now is a total lack of authenticity.
