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"Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else."
"There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling."
"I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate."
"I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation."
"Again the important point to remember is that you should keep asking yourself questions. Do not make statements. Ask questions to yourself. The mind hates that."
"There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse."
"Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night."
"Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is."
"No one is looking at what President Obama is wearing. Michelle Obama cannot Instagram a bikini pic like what my girl Instagrammed the other day."
"I think that its an artist's responsibility to have a point of view. Society takes its cue from popular art. People need something to look to, something to provoke them into questioning whether they completely hate something or completely love something."
"While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken."
"Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process."
"I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen."
"You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity."
"Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like its hate, but it's the truth"
"You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself."
"When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good."
"You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it."
"Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other."
"We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often."
