Andrei Sakharov Quotes
A thermonuclear war cannot be considered a continuation of politics by other means (according to the formula of Clausewitz). It would be a means of universal suicide.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who haven't liked some of the things I'm supposed to have said and who have used it as an opportunity to be verbally abusive and nasty, but I haven't let it rule my world!
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Urbanspoon is a nice, little application and it's perfect, of course, for CitySearch because of the reviews it contains and the ability for CitySearch to use that content.
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I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
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To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.
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I still want to hold on to my beliefs, and as long as I have that, I won't stray too far from politics.
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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
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My hobbies are run-on sentences.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
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War is always an adventure to those who've never seen it.
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A thermonuclear war cannot be considered a continuation of politics by other means (according to the formula of Clausewitz). It would be a means of universal suicide.
