Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
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I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get to work.
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You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
