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Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now.

Svetlana Alexievich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality:
Birth: May 31, 1948

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Freedom Road Long Holiday Know Now

We all fail - I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go.

Me Go Never Up Fail Just

Perhaps the greatest challenge for the resolution of a systemic global bank is the possibility that public or private actors in different countries might take local actions that would cause the overall resolution to spin out of control.

Challenge Control Resolution Out

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

God Sky Man People Believe Rest

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

Waiting Feet Bad Back Smoke Down

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.

Beginning Now Islam Force Role

I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

I Am Eye Page Try Entertaining

I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped.

Science Time I Am Tired Years Here

Travelling fills me with dread.

Me Dread Travelling Fills

Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.

Lady Trying Said Sound Old Old Lady

Voting has not been tough for me, for the most part, because there's guideposts about what will bring about the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people.

Michele Bachmann

Happiness People Me Tough Voting

My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.

Jonathan Brandis

Mother Manager Knows Exactly

I have kids. I can't hardly watch an afternoon football game with them without having to turn off the TV during the commercials. It's too much. I don't know when violence was deemed such a cinematic thing.

Derek Cianfrance

Football Game Violence Too Much Know

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