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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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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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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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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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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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
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It's a long season, and if you can go back and forth pretty well, you'll end up OK.
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We'll look after the people who create jobs and business and give them that opportunity to grow in the time ahead.
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We'll collect feedback from that to see what our next steps should be.
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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.
