Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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• When you're a politician, someone always wants something from you, so they're constantly telling you how smart or great you are, and that can warp people! Exercising humility is important to me. My friends back home treat me like the same person I was when I was waiting tables.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Government
  • Best
  • Thought

• I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let's Move campaign to bring down childhood obesity. She and I come from the same state, Illinois, which is number four in the nation for obese children. One out of five Illinois children are considered obese. Not overweight, obese. And two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Children
  • She
  • Childhood

• He who hesitates, meditates horizontally

  

  Ed Parker
  • Meditates
  • Hesitates

• You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Company
  • Ugly
  • Exceptionally

• We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Death

• I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Helping
  • Fights
  • Publicity

• Sweet are the uses of adversity

  

  William Shakespeare
  • inspirational
  • Sweet
  • Adversity

• I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Luscious
  • Dote

• A real explosion is not only much more fun to shoot, it also helps the actors and creates an energy on set and ultimately in the scene.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Energy
  • Actors
  • Shoot

• Partisanship is not part of my professional makeup.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • Makeup
  • Partisanship

• When the aliens come, there’ll be one queue to fight them and one queue to fuck them, and the second one’ll be longer by light-years.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Fight
  • Come
  • Aliens

• Me, personally, I don’t want any restrictions. But I’m not a doctor or a trainer, so I’ve just got to listen to them.

  

  Zion Williamson
  • Listen
  • Trainer
  • Restrictions

• Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Want
  • Everybody
  • Brazil

• We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Soul
  • Bird
  • Feet

• When I was 13, I saw him [Elvis] perform live and I suddenly understood what sex is all about. I was screaming at the top of my lungs.

  

  Raquel Welch
  • Understood
  • Lungs

• The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Forests
  • Brazil
  • Lungs