Bidzina Ivanishvili Quotes
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A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular.
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Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
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You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.
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It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.
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Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.
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I like statement flats that can take you from day to night.
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My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.
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My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people.
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If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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I wanted contemporary music to be treated the same as the traditional repertoire - performed regularly by people who knew each other and the music. That is the way you convince an audience.
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Paris, as modern city is beautiful in its perfection, but perfection means death and decay. Thus interfering with the process of dying is a crime against perfection: it stands in the way of a higher perfection.
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When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.
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Exclusive homosexuality is not very common in nature.
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I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.
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My only hobby is going for walks outdoors.
