Leon Trotsky Quotes
Repression for the attainment of economic ends is a necessary weapon of the socialist dictatorship.
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Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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Illinois has the opportunity to lead the country in providing more affordable health care options to its citizens.
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I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.
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If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.
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The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.
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When I lived in Delhi, it was burdened with so many futures - fast roads, malls, flyovers - that one felt almost obliged to be hopeful. Now that hope has diminished, you can feel the city going into a frenzy to reinvent itself. I miss living there.
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I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.
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I look back on the last 10 years and I have to say I'm proud of what I have accomplished, because I've been able to raise two beautiful children.
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There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.
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I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.
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He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.
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From far, from eve and morningAnd yon twelve-winded sky,The stuff of life to knit meBlew hither; here am I.
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In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.
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But when they have realized that it society rejects them forever, they themselves assume the ostracism of which they are victims so as not to leave the initiative to their oppressors
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Crowdsourcing aid is a cunning way to work around the do-nothing corridors of official Washington. But it also raises complicated questions about the nature of humanitarianism and what it means for a 'nation' to help.
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It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
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The minute you hesitate you are in trouble.
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My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary and without influence, became at once the target of much insult and abuse.
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Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market.
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Repression for the attainment of economic ends is a necessary weapon of the socialist dictatorship.
