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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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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No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
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You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.
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Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
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The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: 'Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.'
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When the USSR collapsed, I was 11, and unlike many people, I don't miss it.
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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.
