Dmitry Medvedev Quotes

What's the point of elections if everything is already decided?

Dmitry Medvedev

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• There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Winning
  • Attitude
  • motivation

• I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Music
  • Real
  • High

• Silence is also conversation.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Silence
  • Conversation
  • Also

• I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Feeling
  • Small
  • Me

• There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Women
  • She
  • High

• Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Respect
  • Value
  • Face

• I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Me

• It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • War
  • Got
  • Vietnam

• Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • May
  • Death
  • Relationship

• I don't like actors, I like women.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Women
  • Like

• I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Work
  • Think
  • Memory

• On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Shot
  • Taliban

• I might have faults but I'm not a big head.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Head
  • Big
  • Big Head

• Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Lie

• I want to play more festivals.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Want
  • Play
  • Festivals

• Basically, I grew up watching Carter girls on stage, watching my grandmother, my mom and my aunts perform. They used to say, 'Okay, Carter girls, you're on!'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Stage

• Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Miss
  • Less
  • Damn

• I know I have a place in Heaven waiting for me because of Him, and that's something no earthly prize or trophy could ever top.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Heaven
  • Place

• To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called ‘the rupture of plane’ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Kind
  • Achieve

• The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Different
  • Long
  • Book

• I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay.

  

  Arthur Hertzberg
  • Party

• What's the point of elections if everything is already decided?

  

  Dmitry Medvedev