Mathias Rust Quotes
My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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You were born as the one you are.
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My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.
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I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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As long as Hamas needs the support it could conceivably get from the international community through the Palestinian Authority, it has an interest in playing nice with Fatah. And Fatah has an interest in playing nice with Hamas because it needs some source of legitimacy on the West Bank.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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'The democratization of luxury means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better.
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That there are evil people destroying America and it's a conspiracy and time is running out and we should do something about it - that's what millions of people hear Trump saying.
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I used to eat a lot of fish, but I've been shying away from it because of the mercury thing. I eat more beef and chicken now.
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My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.
