Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
Here, lads, we live by the law of the taiga. But even here people manage to live. D’you know who are the ones the camps finish off? Those who lick other men’s left-overs, those who set store by the doctors, and those who peach on their mates.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I like things simple.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
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History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.
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I think my biggest mistake was deciding not to go to law school directly after I graduated from college.
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I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazinesnever before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page newstrying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?
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Here, lads, we live by the law of the taiga. But even here people manage to live. D’you know who are the ones the camps finish off? Those who lick other men’s left-overs, those who set store by the doctors, and those who peach on their mates.
