Leon Trotsky Quotes

The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism.

Leon Trotsky

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• From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Night
  • Day
  • Dark

• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Trying
  • Eye

• I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Acting
  • Looks
  • Get

• I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Stories
  • Bible
  • Theater

• I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Water
  • Always
  • Drink

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Animal
  • Reflect

• Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Dad
  • Like

• A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Life
  • Source
  • Flow

• I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Trouble
  • Hollywood
  • Awful

• The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Children
  • Break
  • Jewelry

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Great
  • Service

• I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Pretty
  • Politics
  • Baseball

• In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Rare

• Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Fire

• My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Voice
  • Appreciation
  • Express

• A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.

  

  S. N. Behrman
  • People
  • Simple

• I don't know if there will ever be a day that I'm not wearing heels. I'm a very big personality, and I don't like to look up at other people.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • People
  • Up
  • Personality

• Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

  

  Brendan Behan
  • Fear

• They thought we were a bunch of self-satisfying, materialistic, selfish people who would crumble. We knew that's not who we were.

  

  Cokie Roberts
  • People
  • Selfish
  • Materialistic

• 'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.

  

  Dave Morris
  • War
  • Peace

• The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • War
  • Support
  • Struggle