"We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle."
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"Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing."
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"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do what he wants it to do. And a piano is just a piano. It's made out of so much wood and wires and little hammers and big ones, and ivory. While there's only so much you can do with it, the only way to find this out is to try; to try and make it do everything."
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"A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another."
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"I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words."
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"It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in."
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"I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it."
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"I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it."
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"We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied."
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"Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion."
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"If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession."
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"Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing."
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"First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress."
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"Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators."
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"Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?'"
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"There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe."
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"Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side."
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"...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things."
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"When you learn to make everybody happy, you will possess the golden secret of how to milk the contented voters. But do it in such a way that they won't think you want them to vote for you just because you need the money. They need the money, and besides, they can think up other reasons if they try."
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"When a child is gifted, people try to help that child."
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