Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.
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For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.
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It annoys me when people can't differentiate between the character and the actor, which is a little bit silly.
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One thing I had learned in college was that if you ever had a question about truth, reality, or the meaning of existence, read a novel by Albert Camus. Pretty soon you'll be so baffled you'll forget the question.
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Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.
