Anna Akhmatova Quotes
The stars of death stood over us. And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed under the crunch of bloodstained boots, under the wheels of Black Marias.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
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I was incredibly shy and insecure as a child. I was bullied. I was dyslexic. I had an immigrant single parent. I was the opposite of that kind of ideal, cool girl thing.
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I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.
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We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.
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By almost universal agreement, the most vague and ineffectual of all Presidents was Millard Fillmore, who succeeded to the office in 1850 upon the death of Zachary Taylor, and spent the next three years demonstrating how the country would have been run if they had just propped Taylor up in a chair with cushions.
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I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing.
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The stars of death stood over us. And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed under the crunch of bloodstained boots, under the wheels of Black Marias.
