Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want to be attached to a catheter. I saw all that stuff happen to my father, and as much as it upset me because I loved my father so much, it also really traumatized me.
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
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Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
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People say, 'He doesn't want to be a spokesperson for the gay community.' I do, of course I do, but I want to be a spokesperson for everyone. Ya know, straight people, gay people, bisexual. I don't want it to be limited.
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History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
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I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together.
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I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.
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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
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The future or the past - It's very simple: building the future, or a restoration of post-communism.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought.
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I usually start with a guitar riff or some little pattern of chords, and then I kind of go from there. Usually my lyrics are the last thing to go onto a song. For years and years I only ever did instrumental, so I'm still trying to get confidant with my lyrics and find the right balance. I'll generally get inspired from the music. I'll have a guitar line, and then I'll have a melody line, and I hook the lyrics up to fit that rhythm. So, my lyrics to tend be very rhythmic as well. They work with the music rather than the music works around them.
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No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
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But you know we’re always going to have to rely on the goodwill of those of you who are straight for our survival. And that’s the damned truth.
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Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.
