"I don't think Americans realize the degree to which they are the main subject of Russian television news. Every night there's news from the United States and scandals about the United States, and every night the United States is shown to be an enemy of Russia over and over and over again. And this is, of course, useful to the Russian president, because it's, we have this big and important enemy - you need me here to fight back."

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Source : Source: www.politico.com

Anne Applebaum

#Fighting Quotes #Night Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I'd prefer doing films where you don't have to leave your brains behind.”
“Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2011). “I Love a Broad Margin To My Life”, p.113, Random House
“Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure of dancing with somebody in an unplanned and spontaneous way, when you're free to invent and they're free to invent and you're neither one hampering the other - that's a very pleasant social form.”
“Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.”

Source : "John Inglesant". Book by Joseph Henry Shorthouse, 1881.
“Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then”
“Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.”
“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.”

Source : Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1099, Dell
“I'm a Gemini, so there's two people in me. Straight up. There's the nerd who is totally zoned out in the studio, EQ-ing this kick drum, raising this snare one decibel, or swapping this high hat out for another. Then there's the other side who's a performer. I have to go out on stage and be electric, a fire cracker, just run around the stage and give a show.”

Source : Source: 215mag.com

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