Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes
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I am an ordinary person.
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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.
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I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
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Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].
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But we have received a sign, Edith - a mysterious sign. A miracle has happened on this farm... in the middle of the web there were the words 'Some Pig'... we have no ordinary pig." "Well", said Mrs. Zuckerman, "it seems to me you're a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider.
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No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.
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To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.
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If I didn't do this I'd sit back and die. I was a prisoner in my own castle.
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
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She's just funny about accolades, ... She would say, 'I haven't done anything out of the ordinary.'
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A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.
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The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
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Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
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We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
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Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.
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Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.
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It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.
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Somebody has to be prepared to be the good guy from time to time in order for the human race to prosper, though most people don't want it to be them.
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They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have baffled the men they themselves were before Pearl Harbor. Among MacArthur's ardent infantrymen were cooks, mechanics, pilots whose planes had been shot down, seamen whose ships had been sunk, and some civilian volunteers.
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We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.
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Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
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I'm not an ordinary prisoner.
