Leon Trotsky Quotes
Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify, and dishearten the enemy but also in order to shake up our own ranks, to show them that there was no turning back, that ahead lay either complete victory or complete ruin.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
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In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
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There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.
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Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?
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We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries.
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I rarely give interviews. I am against doing television interviews or chatting on the Net, even to promote my films. This is my personal decision, and it is not to hurt or embarrass anybody.
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Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
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Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify, and dishearten the enemy but also in order to shake up our own ranks, to show them that there was no turning back, that ahead lay either complete victory or complete ruin.
