Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I can't change my bra size. They're natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can't change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It's what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.
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'Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor.
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I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.
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Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
