Anna Akhmatova Quotes
But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you … more proud...
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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To suffer is the great modality of taking the world seriously.
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I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you're a diva. They can't believe after eight years, and eight albums, you're still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody.
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No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.
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Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.
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I've talked to other players that were there, but that was played in like complete silence. I guess there was a radio announcer there, but there was nothing else that you could even document it. People don't even know if they had a backboard or nets.
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But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you … more proud...
