#gr

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#after #agreement #because #born #childhood

I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#assure #because #civilized #civilized world #divisions

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it. ↗

— Shania Twain

#better #bigger #country #country music #daughter

I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is. ↗

— Mario Batali

#dream #great #how #i #i can

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#each #ill #luck #misunderstanding #never

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#another #give #hate #hatred #instinctive

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#great man #important #important thing #man #oneself

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#begin #breaking #chapters #characters #delving

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#enigma #foundations #greatness #itself #negative

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#angry #i #i am #survivor #victim