Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.
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Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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You cannot mix sports with politics.
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They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.
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The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
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I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.
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Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.
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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made.
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I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant.
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All the perks, all the benefits and advantages you may get for the rank or position you hold, they aren’t meant for you. They are meant for the role you fill. And when you leave your role, which eventually you will, they will give the ceramic cup to the person who replaces you. Because you only ever deserved a Styrofoam cup.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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Sometimes I'll be playing along and find I'm missing the strings. I'll worry about it for days until I notice that the pick has worn down to half its size.
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Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.
