Andrei A. Gromyko Quotes
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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I like to race, not to do laps alone.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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The whole sector of public dialogue has been totally contaminated, deliberately, by the corporate sector. The whole purpose is to sow confusion and doubt, and it's worked.
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I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.
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What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
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I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.
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The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
