Dmitry Medvedev Quotes
Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.
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When you arrive unexpectedly at someone’s house you go in through the front door, often after making sure you’ve got a couple of mates waiting round the back. For a business, especially the kind that involves big trucks and heavy metal, it’s always better to go in through the back. The customer-facing part of any modern business is purposely designed to be as politely unhelpful as possible. If you go in from the rear, the customer-facing staff are all facing the wrong way and everybody starts their conversation on the back foot.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.
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Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.
