Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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• I enjoy seeing new places.

  

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• Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

  

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• While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.

  

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• I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.

  

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• Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

  

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• I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

  

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• When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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• There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.

  

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• Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.

  

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• I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.

  

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• I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

  

  Karlie Kloss
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• I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.

  

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• When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

  

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• I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven’t won one against a white person.

  

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• When a man lies he murders some part of the world These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives All this i cannot bear to witness any longer Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home.

  

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• The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
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• And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.

  

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• It's time to move this country forward.

  

  Grant Shapps
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• When will you human monsters stop twisting innocent people into beasts and putting the world at risk?

  

  Nancy Holder
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• The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Capitalism
  • Invention
  • Collectivism