Alexander Lebedev Quotes
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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Foreigners can only fight with success in the summer. We can fight during any of the four seasons, so we have the weather on our side.
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I do believe that our ability to jam the Trump brand is somewhat limited. I think we can chip away at it, but ultimately, the way to undermine the Trump brand is a better product in the political marketplace, if you'll forgive the capitalist metaphor.
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People will burn through a show in two or three days, and then you're left feeling empty for 51 weeks.
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When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
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I didn't say that. I don't know who told him that.
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If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
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I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.
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Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.
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If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.
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I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens
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Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.
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Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.
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Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.
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The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.
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I'm a Cubs fan. As a kid, the Cubs were my team.
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What a name – Pyotr Frankis. I wondered who had made it up for him. Pyotr Frankis, Jascha – Slavs all over the place, it would seem. Just like my great-grandmother. I felt for her in my mind about the same way you’d feel for a stray piece of food in your mouth with your tongue, but as usual, I had no sense of her beyond a particularly intense memory.
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Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.
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Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.
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You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.
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Owning a newspaper does not confer immunity.
