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Boris Yeltsin Quotes

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

Boris Yeltsin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: russian
Birth: February 1, 1931 - April 23, 2007

Topics

New Human Rights Human Rights Idea

I've really gotten over pedals. I can't keep up with this craze of boutique pedals that make you sound like everything but your guitar. I can't get my head around it.

Joe Bonamassa

Guitar You Sound Everything Head Up

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

John Backus

Work Lazy Being Come Much

If only Tammy knew how much I really cared about her. She has nothing to do with any of this mess.

Jessica Hahn

Nothing She Mess Her Only Knew

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

Jerry Garcia

Life Death You Matter Comparison

I've always kind of lived in my own world.

Meg White

World Kind My Own Always Own Lived

As humans with egos and feelings, none of us wants to be pilloried. But as thinkers and writers, it's our job to express opinions forthrightly and without qualifying them out of existence.

Meghan Daum

Job Opinions Feelings Existence Out

I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me, it's always instinctively been about sound making and trying to extract information, grammar, meaning from sound making. That's been my way of navigating reality that's very personal; a painter might say they make marks or look.

Max Richter

Me Rest Think Reality Meaning Look

I've been visiting Thailand for more than 20 years but didn't fall in love with it until I visited Phuket Town in Phuket. The northern part of Phuket is one of the most fascinating places I've ever been, and largely unspoilt and unknown.

Tony Parsons

Love Fall Unknown Places More Years

Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool.

Mo Ibrahim

People Society Political Play Phones

I think that the effort to continue to look for some law to somehow make violence go away is missing the point.

Mitt Romney

Effort Law Think Violence Look Go

I appreciate good work no matter where it's coming from.

Work Good Good Work Appreciate Where

I loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercises to stimulate subject matter: Write a poem about an imaginary landscape with real people in it. Write about a place your parents lived in before you were born. We have enough terrible poetry around without encouraging more of it.

Donald Hall

Creative Poetry Parents People You