Marat Safin Quotes
There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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Acting is in your soul.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
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I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me.
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If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
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Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
