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Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.

Svetlana Alexievich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Power Hate Will Hatred Birth

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can 'be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough' are not true. They are fairy tales.

Strength Talent People World Enough

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Reality Way Everything Eventually

The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends.

Jennifer Saunders

Truth Truth Is Friends You Want

I think when you're talking about marriage equality and race, people very quickly start to get into their political corners: their ideology comes to the forefront, and they get into this platform argument that they're used to making, which really doesn't have anything to do with the day-to-day basics of what is being talked about.

Marriage Equality People Start Think

When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the 'aw shucks' Nebraska kid who's coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there's parts of both, but I don't think I am either one, if that makes sense.

I Am Think Feel Kid Out Big

Leaders don't look behind; they don't look to the side - they look ahead.

Look Ahead Side Leaders Behind

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.

Influence Process Canada Events Out

Once in a while, a person finds his humanity in a way that astounds his contemporaries.

Humanity Person Way Once His While

I don't care what a lot of anonymous strangers think about restaurants.

Think Care Strangers Anonymous About

I'm not a selfish guy.

I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you're talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable.

Miguel Nicolelis

Nature Soul Think Talking You Body

On the outskirts of the desert in Yemen, there was a cafe with a jukebox that had 'Sunshine Superman' on it. I loved that.

Sunshine Desert Loved Superman Cafe

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