Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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• Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Want
  • Better

• I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Band

• I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Woman
  • Uncomfortable
  • Intimate

• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Home
  • Song

• For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Hate

• I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Music
  • Play
  • Picture

• I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Myself
  • Conservative

• Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Heart
  • Weird
  • Sad

• I went right to the 'Guide to the Marvel Universe,' which has every Marvel character from A-Z, and fortunately, I had every issue. I found 'Deathlok,' read about him there.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Universe
  • Right

• Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Great
  • Rise
  • Rise Above

• To travel? In order to travel it's enough to be. ... Why travel? In Madrid, in Berlin, in Persia, in China, at the Poles both, where would I be but in myself, and in the sort and kind of my sensations?Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Why
  • Travel

• Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Good
  • Law
  • Red

• Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Religious

• I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.

  

  Peter Brimelow
  • Action

• High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • School
  • Experience
  • American

• Personally, I had a close friend with cystic fibrosis. I won't ever forget how he handled himself. In the face of extreme challenges and very harrowing circumstances, he maintained a positive outlook and was just very dignified, even in his suffering.

  

  Max Carver
  • Friend
  • Suffering
  • Positive

• Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.

  

  Brad Falchuk
  • Desire
  • Teenager

• Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?

  

  Colin Mochrie

• Chemical compounds of carbon can exist in an infinite variety of compositions, forms and sizes. The naturally occurring organic substances are the basis of all life on Earth, and their science at the molecular level defines a fundamental language of that life.

  

  Elias James Corey
  • Life
  • Science
  • Earth

• This is not a time for America to 'believe in magic.' This is a time to drive education forward. This is a time to drive the economy forward. This is a time to drive America forward. We must do it together. And we must re-elect Barack Obama as President of the United States.

  

  Jim Hunt
  • Time
  • Believe
  • America

• When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with the low art of the tacky garden gnome, you're going to have lots and lots of opportunity for fun and putting your tongue very firmly in your cheek.

  

  David Furnish
  • Art
  • Fun
  • High

• I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Desire
  • Wanted