Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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Every day, you're only as good as your last show.
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I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.
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As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
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All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.
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God is directly perceived by the mind, but not by this ordinary mind. It is the pure mind that perceives God, and at that time this ordinary mind does not function. A mind that has the slightest trace of attachment to the world cannot be called pure. When all the impurities of the mind are removed, you may call that mind Pure Mind or Pure Ātman.
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Time is a waste of money.
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I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.
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Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.
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Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That's a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams or other cooking methods that might be high wire acts and look good on the outside.
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She smiled. 'I wouldn’t mind. Is that a difference between men and women or between you and me?''I think it’s a difference between you and merely sane people.'
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The aim of militants such as Boko Haram, whose very name means 'Western education is a sin,' is to sow hatred and enmity between Muslim and Christian communities, which have co-existed largely peacefully for generations. Education, in particular the education of women, is a threat to Boko Haram's goals.
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Jesus remains the most influential person in history, one who has inspired untold followers for millennia.
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Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.
