Abel Aganbegyan Quotes
In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.
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To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.
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I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
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What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.
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A real secret is something which only one person knows.
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Defend my honor - Protect my pride
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The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.
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I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.
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I'm not worried about where I rank between other QBs in the league.
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Perhaps our teachings seem less religious and more technical, like psychology, so they are easier for secular people to use.
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Fighters are never who they appear to be.
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See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.
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While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
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Trails are relatively inexpensive. A splendid national network of all kinds of trails can be established at less cost than a few hundred miles of super highway.
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I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work.
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I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have. The rise of nationalism under the guise of patriotism is so effed up, and underneath this banner of patriotism is the worst of nationalist rhetoric: racism, xenophobia, sexism, pitting communities against each other, implicitly inciting race wars and stuff like that. So that's the angry part of it, but I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential to redefine what it means to be a patriotic American .
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In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.
