Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.Mikhail Gorbachev
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
Ralph G. Neas -
The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
Daniel D. Palmer -
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
Quintilian -
I can't take the theater side out of myself.
Laura Bell Bundy -
People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
Aaron Carter -
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
M. H. Abrams
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
A. R. Rahman -
The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
Kate Winslet -
R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
R. Kelly -
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
Jackie Kennedy -
My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
Pankaj Mishra -
I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
Haile Gebrselassie
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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
Kate Millett -
I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
Mandy Patinkin -
I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.
Lara Pulver -
Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
Flume -
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson -
If the world acts together, we can make sure that all of our children enjoy lives of opportunity and dignity.
Barack Obama
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Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.
Virginia Woolf -
Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
Usain Bolt -
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Karl Barth -
I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.
Kathleen McGowan -
There is no question that mistakes were made; however, it is currently hard to separate fact from fictions and reality from rhetoric.
Hal Rogers -
Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.
Mikhail Gorbachev