Anna Akhmatova Quotes
That woman I once was, in a black agate necklace, I do not wish to meet again till the Day of Judgement.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I love New York. Love it.
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You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
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Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
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The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications.
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If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.
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Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.
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We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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That woman I once was, in a black agate necklace, I do not wish to meet again till the Day of Judgement.
