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Leon Trotsky Quotes

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: revolutionary
Nationality: russian
Birth: October 26, 1879 - August 21, 1940

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Great Time Mistakes More Discussion

I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

Health Saying Care Need Reform

If you have spent your life building Ineos, and you find yourself in a crisis, you are going to do anything you can to save what you have been building.

Life Yourself Building You Find

I'm a pretty hands-off director. I let people try things, and if it gets over-jokey, then I'll try and rein it in a little bit.

People Try Director Little Pretty

We like to entertain, but it is not our duty to do so. I have had a lot of exciting fights and been hit way too much, so that is something to think about.

Think Too Much Duty Way Something

I was brought up on a council estate in the countryside near Stoke Prior in Worcestershire, but I adored visiting the farm where my father worked.

Father Farm Up Countryside Where

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

Love Good Fear Music Great Politics

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

School Listening Learn You Wonder

My mom and my dad are still together, but so many of my friends who got married just a few years ago aren't. Maybe it's that we compare ourselves to our parents' generation, thinking, 'Who's still together, and are they happy?'

Rodrigo Santoro

Together Happy Parents Mom Thinking

The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.

Life Live Struggle Yourself Think

As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.

Life Child Think Better My Life

We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.

Life Happy Me Be Happy World Die

I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.

Good Me Say Damn Mean First

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