Nikita Khrushchev (Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev) Quotes
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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Even the ears must dance.
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There are no secrets - I've been fighting around 154 lbs and 155 lbs, so I feel comfortable at this weight. This is my weight class.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
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The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
