Irina Shayk Quotes
You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
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Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
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Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
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He once told a reporter he wanted his obituary to be short - 'just make it born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917'.
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Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
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We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.
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He could afford to be generous, since he didn’t have to pay for it himself. Most virtues were like that. People could take pride in how virtuous they were, but the fact was that as soon as virtue got expensive or inconvenient, it was amazing how fast it gave way to practical concerns.
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You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.
