Vladimir Putin Quotes
In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.
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I think young writers ought to be heretical.
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Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given uninstructed and untrained men and women the right to vote equally uninstructed and untrained people into responsible positions.
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I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.
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In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.
