Leon Trotsky Quotes
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.
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Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.
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I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
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Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.
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In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine.
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
