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 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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Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.
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You can not be successful without confronting rejection.
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What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me.
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Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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I want to be able to wake up and feel like, 'Eh, I feel like wearing this!' Or talking to that person. It's so much more work to have to stay in that box to fit in, 'Mean Girls' style.
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I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
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Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.
