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.
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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.
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The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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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.
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The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
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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.
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He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
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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.
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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.
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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I think people are obsessed with their pets because pets don't speak. It's that simple. After you hang up the phone, you never hear a dog say, 'You're a liar, and you are making the same self-sabotaging mistakes that have kept you single for far too long.'
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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.
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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.
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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
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I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.
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There is a trick with which votaries of Feminism seek to prejudice the public mind against its critics, and that is the “fake” that any man who ventures to criticise the pretensions of Feminism, is actuated by motives of personal rancour against the female sex.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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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.
