Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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I've got to pay $5 for gas just like everybody else.
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Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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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.
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That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.
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A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
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Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?
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There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.
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I was a bit of a rebel.
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I get on well with models, and I like to treat them well.
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Since your company is the product that makes all of your other products, it should be the best product of all. When you begin to think of your company this way, you evaluate it differently. You ask different questions about it. You look at improving it constantly, rather than just accepting what it's become.
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I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.
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The nation is marching along a permanently high plateau of prosperity.
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I'm character-driven. If it's a great character and something different; because I find that a lot of the times you do get pigeon-holed, you do get the same characters over and over again because that's what producers are comfortable with. They've seen you do it, they know you can do it. I'm kind of getting a little stir crazy.
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Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.
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Learn to drink as you pour, so the spiritual heart cannot run dry and you always have love to give.
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The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script.
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My daughter lives in an apartment hovel in Brooklyn, so disgusting the roaches don't even bother hiking up the four flights of stairs to her door. Did I mention that she has a family of mice living under her stove? If she would promise to carry a weapon in her bag, I would never ask her to visit again. Best Mother's Day gift I could ask for!
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When the president comes you always get a ton of money, and it's always difficult to say no to that kind of money.
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I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.
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In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.
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When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along.
