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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A hoodie is worn by everybody: kids, white men, white women, black men. But it clings to the black body as a sign of criminality like nothing else.
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What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image.
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I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.
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My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.
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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.
