Bidzina Ivanishvili Quotes
I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. It became obvious to me that Russia couldn't live without computers. I think I worked this out a year before anyone else. I started looking for people who could help import them.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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Being evil is easy.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.
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To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'
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A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
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If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.
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I'm all in favor of people - myself included - going into the same territory if there's something that can be done with it. But if somebody says, 'Make a sequel to 'Heathers',' I feel like, no, someone should make a good movie that's a dark, satirical comedy that has that sensibility.
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I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. It became obvious to me that Russia couldn't live without computers. I think I worked this out a year before anyone else. I started looking for people who could help import them.
