Leon Trotsky Quotes
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'
Quotes to Explore
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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Having the chance to walk at New York Fashion Week for Yeezy and Milan Fashion Week for Alberta Ferretti and Max Mara in a hijab is so significant. It sends a message to young women everywhere that you can be beautiful for just being you.
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
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If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.
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Saying good-bye when you know it's for the last time is like no other sadness you will ever experience.
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We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
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The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such risks that he has more to tear than to hope. Abu al'Fadl Ja'far al-Dimishqi (c. 9th century) Arab writer. The Beauties of Commerce Business pays ... philanthropy begs.
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When women hear each other's stories, told from the heart, it gives us inspiration to keep on going.
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'
