Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
For a country to have a great writer … is like having another government. That’s why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill -
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
Zadie Smith -
Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
Ma Jun -
Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
Olivia Holt -
Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
Kat Graham
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
Halle Berry -
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier -
On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
J. D. Vance -
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Samuel Johnson -
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver -
It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
Daniel Craig
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
Yami Gautam -
I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
Fleur East -
Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
Karl Pilkington -
I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
Aaron Rodgers -
Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.
Karen Salmansohn -
Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.
Jackie Cooper
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A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
John Hancock -
We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.
Kendrick Meek -
My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'
Amber Heard -
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries -
For a country to have a great writer … is like having another government. That’s why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn