Aleksandr Lebed Quotes

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

Aleksandr Lebed

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: April 20, 1950 - April 28, 2002

Topics

PowerMeEnoughCreateGoCrisis

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

Jimmy Buffett

IgnoranceCareKnowApathyHey

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.

Jesse Jackson

WorkLoveTodayPeopleAmericanOut

To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.

Anastacia

LifePurposeThinkMake A Difference

I was 23, and he was 86. I saw a very sick man. I just wanted to just talk with him. There was no physical attraction at all. He was very much attracted to me.

Anna Nicole Smith

ManMeSickTalkHimSaw

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about.

Stephen Greenblatt

LoveTruthBrokenBelieveCareWay

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

Sidney Poitier

WorkHistoryMyselfI AmWhoOK

I never want to record something that I'm not proud of just because I think it might be a big hit. There's no positive about that because if you record a song you hate and it's a big hit, then you're singing a song every night that you hate. And if you record a song that you hate and it isn't a hit, then you sold out for no reason.

Trisha Yearwood

PositiveHateSingingNightSong

The Democratic Party and DNC have to be a very conspicuous face of the opposition to Donald Trump and all his divisiveness. At the same time, we have to communicate our, I think, positive and inclusive message to everyone.

Tom Perez

PositiveTimeFaceThinkPartySame

Without boxing, I can't live. I love boxing.

Mary Kom

LoveLiveBoxingWithoutI Love

I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable.

Louise Wilson

FashionThinkProblemBecomeI Think

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ManExerciseBeliefJudgmentEvery

How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?

Joshua Foer

LosingShortTalkingAttentionLose

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