Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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I love London, I love the British people.
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.
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Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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Some people in Silicon Valley are as bad as the 'Koch Brothers', you know? Don't be mistaken. For every some of those, though, you get people who come up with something like 'Leafly', which does what 'Yelp' has done, but in a much more specific way, and it's important because it's the dawn of this new era.
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People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.
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People were saying, 'He's worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!' Even I laughed. In my head, I said, 'OK, you've seen the bad side, now come see the good side'.
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I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.
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Writing is like carrying a fetus.
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The environment shapes people's actions.
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What's good for the financial industry probably isn't good for you.
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People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty.
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God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.
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You get way better from playing to the passing public. You learn how to entertain. But it took me a good three years out on the promenade to figure that out. You also learn what makes them stop dead in their tracks and what doesn't.
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The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.
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Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.
