Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Real
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  • Why

• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
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• My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Body

• Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

  

  Ice T
  • Future
  • Want
  • Cinema

• I like heels and make-up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Like
  • Makeup

• Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party-whether he realizes it or not-must always come out the worse.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Party
  • Balance

• What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • World
  • Future

• Every so often, you have to do a show that makes you walk to your car with your head down, wondering what you're doing with your life. It's good for you, as long as you're not feeling that way every night.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Parents

• Every field piece I did on 'The Daily Show' was a story that lasted five to six minutes. We had a protagonist, we had an antagonist and often put them at odds. We knew the story we wanted to tell before we went in, and often it was about plugging whatever character you have - in this case, a real person - into said part.

  

  Jason Jones
  • Real
  • Character
  • Daily

• What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

  

  Christy Turlington

• I'm very involved in the production of my songs. I know what I like and what I don't like.

  

  Astrid S

• If you're in Hollywood, with no track record, it's pretty odds-on that you can get swamped and overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it all; particularly with the intense commercial push that you feel there.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • Pretty

• No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

  

  Plato
  • Law
  • Understanding

• My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Family
  • Father
  • Parents

• My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Business

• For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Up
  • Work
  • Singing

• There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a book tour.

  

  Gerald Petievich
  • Book
  • Publishing
  • Frightening

• Lick the alphabet. It makes you appear creative, it's an easy diagram to remember, it's like 'aaaaa.... beeeee.... ceeee.' She's thinking you're from fuckin' Europe or somethin: 'OH GOD, WHERE'D YOU LEARN THAT, OHHH,' and you're going 'A, B, C, D, E, F, G'.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Alphabet

• It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Family

• The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product. And we are its workers. The countless hours that we - and the young, particularly - spend on our profiles are the unpaid labor on which Facebook justifies its stock valuation.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • True
  • Stock

• No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Thinking
  • President
  • Situation