Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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Music is about the performance.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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I'm inspired by different cultures around the world and love to incorporate these facets into my collection.
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
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Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens.
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On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?
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It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.
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Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.
