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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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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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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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 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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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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If the world acts together, we can make sure that all of our children enjoy lives of opportunity and dignity.
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El corazón es un infinito de pesadísimas cadenas, encadenando puñaditos de aire.
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I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.
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I've worked on other shows where the sense is like, "Well, don't change it too much," you know? But on this one [ Too Much Tuna], Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] - beyond being amazing performers - are also writers, and wanted to keep improving upon the show, particularly the play within a play. I think the writing just got funnier and funnier.
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To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.
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Believe that there is a purpose in your pain.
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Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in 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.
