"When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt."

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Leonid Brezhnev

#Running Quotes #Self Quotes #Unions Quotes

“I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.”
“I used to have lots of tigers. I had all sorts of exotic pets when I had some money. Before I was broke, I had everything. Pigeons and vultures, lions, tigers, and bears. I had it all.”
“I am kinder to my body. I don't try to prove anything to myself or others. I keep thinking about the need to go slower, gentler and maintain a sense of humor about it all.”
“Writing is an incessant process of discovery.”

Source : "'What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World,' by Robert Hass". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. August 21, 2012.
“Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.”
“I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth”
“Meditation is a really powerful tool I have for life now. The only reason I know about it is because I was stressing about writing and a friend taught me it. It's been useful. Now I use it for a bunch of different situations, whether I'm stressing before a show or something in the day really pisses me off.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Embrace it. Especially because of the lives we live, a lot of times other people have to care for [our kids] and you have to have that mommy time, Get your sleep!”

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