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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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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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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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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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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Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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For a really long time, I've been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with people, confront issues and not have to beat them to death or ignore them.
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We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
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From my experience, I would say no: actors of East Asian descent don't get the opportunities white actors do. I know that's inherently a problem in a country that produces a lot of period drama, but I have to fight so hard to get parts that don't have something to do with China.
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Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.
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When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.
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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.
