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'd much rather hang out in a cafe. That's where things are really happening.
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I can't live without Eucerin cream, lip gloss, gum, nail polish, and sparkly things.
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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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All the things that are worth doing, take time.
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I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.
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Drama is hate. Drama is pushing your pain onto others. Drama is destruction. Some take pleasure in creating drama while others make excuses to stay stuck in drama. I choose not to step into a web of drama that I can't get out of.
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I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.
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Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.
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It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
