Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

What you have to remember about Belarus is that it's a small state - it has a population of less than 10m people - and like many small states, it has to be very careful about its relationships.

Svetlana Alexievich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.

Jim Leach

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I'm just not a shoe girl.

Jennifer Hudson

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If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

John Glenn

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I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

Matthew McConaughey

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I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.

Ann Aguirre

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Part of America is we've always had people that can get things done.

Stephen Pagliuca

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I let people say and write what they want.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

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Any middle-aged woman knows that our feet are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's actually like my feet are wooden now.

Lisa Scottoline

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Van Gogh was impulsive.

Joni Mitchell

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Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work.

Diego Giacometti

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I come from a theatrical background, where, if you're working on a movie or a play, you always respect the people you work with. You're accommodating.

Derek Hough

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I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.

Derrick Jensen

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