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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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 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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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.
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Mainstream success is important - that's probably anathema to an indie publication like Pitchfork, but it's what I believe having experienced it personally.
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Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.
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If you're going to be a vegetarian, limit yourself to food from a place you can go to in two hours and just eat that.
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I'm really interested in how non-American countries process race.
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I do not believe in conspiracy theories.
