Leon Trotsky Quotes
The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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It used to break my heart that I didn't get to start in varsity soccer!
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.
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You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.
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The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
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I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.
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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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Life should be great rather than long.
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Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.
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Most people don't really need to hear a six-minute guitar solo that modulates between five keys and time signatures. What they want is a good song.
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People don't believe in positive changes anymore.
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The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
