Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

Believe it or not, some Western analysts in the 1930s insisted that Stalin was a 'moderate,' controlled by extremists like the secret police chief Nikolai Yezhov.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.

Joe Mantegna

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My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brought them to the New World, the world of many intellectual as well as material advantages.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

FamilyFreedomChildrenParentsNew

I've had a mental illness for nearly half my life, and I can no longer imagine myself without it. It seems less like something that happened to me than like part of who I am; some days, it is the thing about me, but it is always at least a thing about me.

Andrew Solomon

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My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

Maya Lin

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Ripping on Republicans is not that fun for us only because everyone else does it.

Matt Stone

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I take my brand very seriously.

Steve Harvey

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Traveling the road can be quite tiresome.

Stephen Hough

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As a kid, I didn't know that 'All in the Family' was satirizing male chauvinism or that Bobby Riggs was a self-promoting put-on. Many of us didn't get the irony and went on making fun of women and girls who wanted to play sports, especially the same sports that men and boys traditionally played.

Steve Rushin

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I've told everyone that I grew old on 'Hee Haw,' but I could've grown old without it.

Roy Clark

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More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

Joyce Maynard

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When I'm under stress, I do yoga. It's when I'm happiest that I have a problem with junk food.

Britney Spears

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I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

Ali Smith

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