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'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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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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I'm a terrible pessimist... I really don't think we're going to make it. But every so often, there's some little ray of hope.
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I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
