Vladimir Putin Quotes
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.
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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore.
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When the Bangladesh war happened, people in Pakistan who did not support it were called unpatriotic. My father was in the jail at that time, and a lot of those who knew my family used to call us children of a traitor.
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I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.
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Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.
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It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.
