Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
The disappearance of nations would impoverish us no less than if all peoples were made alike, with one character, one face. Nations are the wealth of mankind, they are its generalized personalities: the smallest of them has its own particular colors, and embodies a particular facet of God's design.

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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
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You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going to be confiscated.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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Are you willing to go the extra mile in this new year to know God?
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The disappearance of nations would impoverish us no less than if all peoples were made alike, with one character, one face. Nations are the wealth of mankind, they are its generalized personalities: the smallest of them has its own particular colors, and embodies a particular facet of God's design.