Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
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Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.
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I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.
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But he understood from hard-earned experience that true security comes through making peace with your neighbors.
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SWA Magazine: Talking about spacecraft, what do you think about the shuttle program?
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I want to initiate a bilateral agenda that helps Mexico and the U.S. together compete with the world better, especially with the economies of Asia and the Pacific.
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There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.
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The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.
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Playboy's all about why it's worth working so hard.
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It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
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Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.
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Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
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A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
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For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain.
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I was thinking about … how disarming is the ability to make people laugh. It’s a gift, mimicry, but it’s not acting; in a way it’s the opposite of acting, which is why comedians are seldom good actors. There’s an element of exaggeration in the imposture; the copy is the original painted with a broad brush and it can be grotesque, even cruel. But no one is offended. People are drawn to the funnyman who can imitate a politician or a famous actor or an ethnic type, especially his own ethnic type.
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I'm from New Orleans, which is all about direct engagement out in the street with all the parades and Mardi Gras Indians and jazz funerals. I'm trying to take that and put it into my generation, a group that doesn't have enough joy and celebration in their lives.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.
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It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
