Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes
Putin regards me as the most dangerous person, and when they were releasing me from jail, the only condition was that I leave the country. And when they did push me out of the country, to make sure that I wouldn't come back, they opened up a criminal case against me - a new one.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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Imagine Him smiling down on you right now. Embrace His love. Remember, you are His most prized possession, the apple of His eye!
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When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.
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I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
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How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?
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A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly.
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It was no more nor less than true. You do things by doing things, not by not doing them. No more crazy upsidedownness, he resolved. Good was better than bad. Good environments are better than bad environments.
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Instruct me how to thank thee! Oh, to shoot My soul's full meaning into future years, That they should lend it utterance, and salute Love that endures, from life that disappears!
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My focus is on issues where I can make a difference to stop the liberal agenda being pushed by President Obama.
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A good whack on the head usually has the same effect.
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Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old and stagnant country was suddenly waking up. And I came home, back to America, in 2009 after telling that story and writing a book about that.
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The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.
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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.
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I would go and see loads of films all in one go and they'd start to merge together. It was a bit sad, really. I'd have to see it again.
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Putin regards me as the most dangerous person, and when they were releasing me from jail, the only condition was that I leave the country. And when they did push me out of the country, to make sure that I wouldn't come back, they opened up a criminal case against me - a new one.
