Vladimir Potanin Quotes
There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life.
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Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
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Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
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With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.
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I'd make a bad preacher.
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I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.
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He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.
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All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult.
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I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
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There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life.
