Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.Mikhail Gorbachev
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
Hamdi Ulukaya -
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
G. Stanley Hall -
When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
Jack Nicholson -
I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
Samantha Fox -
What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
Rachel Sklar -
The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
Haley Joel Osment
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
Adam Green -
I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
Idi Amin -
Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
Edmund Phelps -
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
Xun Kuang -
Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
Ice T -
Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
Orison Swett Marden
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
Imre Lakatos -
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
D. H. Lawrence -
One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.
Tavi Gevinson -
People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
Gary Wolf -
You’ve been a father to me.Your 1960’s speak.Gives me comatose joy like re-run TV.While the mountainside was shining.Wild colors of my destiny
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
Virtue is not always amiable.
John Adams
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It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them - all of the lawmakers - have hearts to do what's right, and they all are passionate about it.
Joel Osteen -
I deal with spiritual truth which should never be sold and need never be bought. When you are ready it will be given.
Peace Pilgrim -
I think perfect dates involve walking a lot, and not a bunch of driving around in cars. Ideally, you can walk together and go to a restaurant.
James Mercer Broken Bells -
I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.
Bill Vaughan -
The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.
George Smoot -
Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.
Mikhail Gorbachev