Pyotr Aven Quotes
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.
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If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.
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But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.
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I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture to that and they bring also the place where the original culture meets the new culture.
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The person that angers you most, teaches you best
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What motivates me now are ideas I developed 10, 20 or 30 years ago, and the feeling that these ideas may be lost if I don't push them a little bit further.
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I do not believe in conspiracy theories.
