Vladimir Putin Quotes

As a rule, [populism] is done for the sake of political expediency by those who do not care about the consequences, who do not think even one step ahead, who do not want to think and do not intend to honour their commitments.

Vladimir Putin

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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • High
  • Want

• I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Hurt
  • Operation
  • Judaism

• NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Security
  • NATO
  • Cornerstone

• On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

  

  Iman
  • Thought
  • Birthday
  • Mail

• I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Life
  • Different
  • Brave

• My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Great
  • Trying

• My work was entirely nonfiction.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Work
  • Nonfiction
  • Entirely

• Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Live
  • Blessing
  • Holy

• I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Language
  • Years
  • Flowers

• The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Good
  • Age
  • Balance

• You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Know
  • Boy

• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Smell
  • Gardening

• If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Money
  • You
  • Looking

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Infinite
  • Out

• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Garden

• We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Change
  • Achievement

• I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Lonely

• People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Good
  • Weird

• A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Done
  • Revolution
  • Police

• The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • Political
  • Religious

• As a rule, [populism] is done for the sake of political expediency by those who do not care about the consequences, who do not think even one step ahead, who do not want to think and do not intend to honour their commitments.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Political