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.
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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.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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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.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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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.
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Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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I can afford to get Tesco's finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.
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Dating, as we justly may, a new era in the history of man from the Fourth of July, 1776, it would be well, that is, it would be useful, if on each anniversary we examined the progress made by our species in just knowledge and just practice.
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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.
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We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
