Natan Sharansky Quotes

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.

Natan Sharansky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: January 20, 1948

Topics

FearPeopleSocietyBelieveEveryone

I'm afraid of buying a house or anything, 'cause if there's one paparazzi outside for one day, then they'll never leave.

Robert Pattinson

DayHouseOne DayNeverOutside

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

Michael Cunningham

WorkPoetryDinnerNightWalking

I never expected to become a director. It never occurred to me to come to America, to Hollywood. It's all been a wonderful accident. I'm still amazed every time I finish a film.

Stephen Frears

TimeMeAmericaHollywoodBecome

I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.

Sue Monk Kidd

RacismRememberSummerNeverRacial

When I'm looking for something, I say, 'Man that's ugly - nobody would want to rock that.' Then I grab it and I put it on.

Slim Jimmy

ManUglyLookingNobodyWantRock

Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself.

Joyce Carol Oates

GoodTimeManGood ManThoughtHard

I remember being in my house from when I was, like, five to when I was, like, 12. When hurricanes would happen, you just hold hands, and you say, 'You know what, we have each other. We're praying,' and this roof can literally peel off of your house.

Joshua Henry

RememberHandsYouHouseKnowSay

I still have some very dear friends from school, and we get together whenever possible.

Dionne Warwick

TogetherSchoolGet TogetherFriends

I do like directing other people's material.

Brian De Palma

PeopleLikeDirectingOtherMaterial

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.

Brandon Webb

BusinessBeautifulTimeMountain

Polanski's 'Chinatown' is a film that I have purposefully and consciously imitated, but 'Vertigo' is one that has got into my bloodstream. Every time I reappraise things that I've done, the influence is there, time and time again.

Allen Coulter

TimeInfluenceDoneThingsGotFilm

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

Aung San Suu Kyi

BelieveThinkProfessionalJustLike

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