Leon Trotsky Quotes
The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Oscar Niemeyer
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
Florence Nightingale
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I am healthy and happy.
Candice Swanepoel
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I kind of crave loneliness.
Sam Heughan
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
Gavin O'Connor
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
Zig Ziglar
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
Patrick Macnee
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
Walt Mossberg
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
Paloma Faith
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
Natalie Cole
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
Rachel Weisz
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
Frances Wright
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
Zadie Smith
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
Octavian Paler
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
Barry Jenkins
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
Oscar Taveras
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Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
Ian Mckellen
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Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.
Jennifer Granholm
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Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.
Chapman Cohen
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A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.
Aaron Sorkin
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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
John Milton
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
Leon Trotsky