"We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held."

-- W. Averell Harriman

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“The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.”

Source : Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.166, Simon and Schuster
“My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.”
“Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party,”
“However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.”

Source : Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.63, A&C Black
“Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.”
“Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.”
“Whenever I'm faced with an issue, I deal with it squarely, even if I was going to fail, I try to learn from my mistakes. So if we appreciate our past, then we can understand where we are at presently.”

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“Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.”

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