"The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity."

-- Raisa Gorbacheva

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“I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.”

Source : "Rod Taylor, Star of 'The Birds' and 'The Time Machine,' Dies at 84" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 8, 2015.
“Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.”
“Branding is overrated.”
“A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.”
“Life doesn't stop with football,”
“One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party”
“Facebook, from what I can tell, is the virtual equivalent of dropping into the homes of several million people, all of whom say at the same time: 'Hey! Let's set up the slide projector!”
“However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.”

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