Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without these freedoms and rights, there is no motivation for people to work. Such a system cannot be sustained, especially in light of the technological revolution of the information era.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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• Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Future
  • Fate

• I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Know
  • Body

• I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • College
  • Everything
  • Quit

• I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • House
  • Trump
  • Reasonable

• Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Limit

• I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Up
  • Family
  • Child

• I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Fashion

• I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Gold

• I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Strong
  • Horse
  • Holidays

• We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

  

  Ice T
  • Money
  • Art
  • Culture

• It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Year
  • Month
  • Looking Forward

• I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Interested
  • Gossips

• I have a whole, whole lot of respect for the men and women that serve our country.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • World
  • Political
  • Party

• I have conservative relatives. I maintain some relationships with some conservatives going back to the 1990s... Not in any meaningful way.

  

  David Brock
  • Meaningful

• Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Friendship
  • Most
  • Liking

• Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Conversation
  • Paint
  • Kissing

• The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without these freedoms and rights, there is no motivation for people to work. Such a system cannot be sustained, especially in light of the technological revolution of the information era.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Political
  • Revolution
  • Information