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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Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built on layer and layer of complex constituents, can we help but be reminded of the Land of Oz. Have we found the Emerald City? Is this what we were searching for? Is this the ultimate fabric of reality? Is this all there is?
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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I'm really into personalities. There have been certain girls that I've been attracted to, but when we got to chatting, it was such a let-down. So for me, a great personality is key.
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Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
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I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?
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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...
