Nursultan Nazarbayev Quotes
Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.
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O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.
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I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.
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For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?
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Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
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Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
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Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.
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For me to live in a world that is not inclusive of other people who are not Christian would be the opposite of Christianity.
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There are times we spent money when we shouldn't, the choices we make define the results we get
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Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.
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Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.
