Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes
I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.
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I can't take anything seriously.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.
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As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
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I think outdoors has been my second home. My parents wouldn't be like, "Go and do a puzzle," they'd be like, "Hey, there's a forest across the street. You need to go play in it."
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Find something that makes you want to give and give and give 'til it hurts.
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We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
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I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?
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I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.
