"Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit."

-- George F. Kennan

#Clever Quotes #Russia Quotes #Deceit Quotes

“Not one example of significant self-generation or self-organization can be found in the entire realm of nature.... Without causation, nothing happens and without organization by an intelligent being, systems tend to lower and lower levels of complexity.”
“I will always have a very deep love for Amy Winehouse.”
“There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.”
“If Harvey [Milk] had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.”

Source : "Pure Inspiration From Dustin Lance Black" by Caroline Hart, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2017.
“But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.”
“The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.”
“For a writer, mail is not just a collection of bills and letters and offers to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It's an umbilical cord, a connection to the outside world, the giver of pleasure and pain. It shapes the day, is the moment, inexorable as the tide, toward which all the hours rise and fall.”
“The world we live in takes a multifaceted approach. To the American taxpayer: We need to be investing in improving people's lives before the terrorists try to take over.”

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