Vladimir Potanin Quotes
Many people say the privatisation was unfair: that is true - it was unfair. That is a fact: some people became rich and others did not. Unfair does not mean illegal, but it was inevitably unfair.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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I pack on mass quickly when I lift.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?
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Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.
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I love Comme des Garcons. I think everything she touches is almost like gold. And she does it so quietly. No branding.
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Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed by military bases all over California.
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The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.
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There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, must have respect for the others and not encroach into each other's domain.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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It seems ridiculous that you can be in one state with your driver's license and buy a firearm, and then in the next state it is totally illegal. There are real problems to that, but as soon as you bring up the subject and say 'gun control,' it sets a red flag.
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The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.
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Many people say the privatisation was unfair: that is true - it was unfair. That is a fact: some people became rich and others did not. Unfair does not mean illegal, but it was inevitably unfair.
