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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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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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.
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Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
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I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get home.
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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.
