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I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. ↗

— David Remnick

#achievements #bitterness #everything #gorbachev #him

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate. ↗

— David Remnick

#different #electorate #i #i think #senate

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. ↗

— Jules Renard

#empties #filling #heart #hourglass #like

The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#before #being #carried #crowd #faces

They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#because #brotherly #feel #human #me

We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#burden #cannot #enough #feelings #here

Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly. ↗

— Leah Remini

#drop #focus #give #give me #hint

I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself. ↗

— Leah Remini

#believe #getting #i #making #me

I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work. ↗

— Leah Remini

#episodes #first #gone #had #i

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work. ↗

— David Remnick

#dare #domestic #high #independent #investigative