Leon Trotsky Quotes
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living.
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You've got to give away what you love.
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Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
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Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.
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There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is a minority interest and make it accessible without dumbing it down. I'm such an enthusiast for peculiar things, things that are perhaps a bit avant-garde, and try and involve everyone.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
