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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Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
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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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My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
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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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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.
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I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
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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.
