Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.
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I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.
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It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.
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What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale.
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You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
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To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.
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Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
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Turkey is a model of economic and social development, especially in terms of human resources and regional cooperation.
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
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There should be order if the development of the cyber world is to be sustainable.
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It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
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Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.
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The hard part (of communication) is hearing criticism so it can be easily given.
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Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.
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I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.
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These modern means of communication are one reason why I recently opposed the Government's decision to grant MPs a new communications allowance. With new technology giving us the opportunity to communicate directly with voters very cheaply, why did Labour MPs vote for a £10,000 allowance to tell voters what a good job they do?
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Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity there is in wine steadily refuses to impart its glow to their shriveled hearts.
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We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.
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The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.
