Leon Trotsky Quotes
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy.
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I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.
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I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.
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El hombre no va a ninguna parte. Todo viene al hombre, como el mañana.
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I feel like no one starts entertainment with an impure intention, but somewhere along the way, lines become blurred and you're no longer sure which way is up and which way is down.
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As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me head of the Reformed church in Scotland, I am a watchman...For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.
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Don't let the same dog bite you twice.
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I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now.
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I don't think we'll really know what's going on until we enter the next dimension and all that.
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My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.
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When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'
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If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree.
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Now suddenly you got members of your White House team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.
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Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.
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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
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If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.
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I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism growing up - you can't avoid that if you're a person of color in this country.
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One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
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Galleries in the West have probably been looking for exoticism. That's the reason my paintings initially sold well, I think. And then once they started selling, people said my works were very detailed. They may have represented something Japanese to them.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
