Anna Akhmatova Quotes
The grave I go to will not be my own. But if I could step outside myself and contemplate the person that I am, I should know at last what envy is.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.
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I'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.
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Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
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I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
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Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.
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I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.
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I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.
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I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
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I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
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Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
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The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
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I hate SF books that think all you need to make a book is cool technology and mind-bending ideas without a decent plot or characters. And I hate when fantasy books are allowed to ramble off into five hundred page diatribes which don't advance the story one bit.
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I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.
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Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.
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Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
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~Before, my career came first. All I had to think about was myself. Now my children prevail. It doesn't mean my career is less important; I just have to position things differently.~
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October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
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The grave I go to will not be my own. But if I could step outside myself and contemplate the person that I am, I should know at last what envy is.
