Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
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You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.
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I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
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Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.
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As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
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It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.
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I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.
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I said, 'What I'm going to do is dress as plain as humanly possible.' I'm not going to wear anything fancy, I'm not going to have fancy music, I'm not going to have fancy pyro - I'm literally just going to be a dude walking into the ring. I'm going to look like I just got off work from a construction site, and I am now punching you in the face.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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Inspiration drives us to be more than we are by allowing us to see all that we could be.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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A Russian cosmonaut and a Russian brain surgeon were once discussing Christianity. The brain surgeon was a Christian, but the cosmonaut wasn’t. ‘I have been in outer space many times,’ bragged the cosmonaut, ‘but I have never seen any angels.’ The brain surgeon stared in amazement, but then he said, ‘And I have operated on many intelligent brains, but I have never seen a single thought.
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Russian writers enjoy almost sacred status.
