Anna Akhmatova Quotes
Dread. Bottomless dread... I am that shadow on the threshold defending my remnant peace.

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I'm not a Republican.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
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The wussification of America is killing us by teaching us to censor ourselves from what we believe. That's why I want to see political correctness die in my lifetime, but first... I want to watch it suffer.
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Dread. Bottomless dread... I am that shadow on the threshold defending my remnant peace.