Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes
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I hardly ever go to the movies.
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Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.
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Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.
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I began to feel lighthearted. Don’t ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.
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The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.
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I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane
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Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go.
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A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.
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Why cast yourself over a cliff, deciding in your writings about things of which you are ignorant? Why do you not keep to what you have received from the Fathers and Doctors of the Church? You introduce novelties!
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I think not in two or three dimensional terms but in five dimensional terms when I consider a novel. There's height, width, and depth, there's the time factor, and then there's the factor which I call the cerebral factor of the reader, the way the reader adjusts to all the other dimensions, which is the fifth dimension.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good.
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Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.
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Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend.
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I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.
