Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes
My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.
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I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
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It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
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I have always been like this. I take after my father. I'm just chill.
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My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.
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Qian Xuesen, the father of the Chinese Space Program, studied in the United States, and he was a protégé of Theodore Von Carmen's at Cal Tech and helped start the jet propulsion laboratory there, and then he got caught up in the anti-communism wave and was accused of being a spy and was actually deported back to China where he built from nothing, their entire missile and space program. So, in a way, in a very real way, the United States in trying to protect so-called protect our secrets and throwing this guy out of the country, we helped seed and start the Chinese missile program.
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Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
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My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.
