Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes
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Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last.'
Vivienne Westwood -
In my opinion, there are two focal points of the war danger. The first focal point is the Far East zone of Japan. The second focal point in the zone is Germany.
Joseph Stalin -
It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.
Hannah Arendt -
Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
William Shakespeare
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When I commit to working with an artist, I give them as much respect as I would like and if I'm not going to commit that way, then I don't want to work with you.
Wayne White -
In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.
Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz -
Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.
Rudyard Kipling -
He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler.
Soren Kierkegaard -
A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.
Lois McMaster -
Loving own country is to love peace.
Aftab Alam
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The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
Naomi Oreskes -
Every generation of Americans who has fought, every generation of Americans who has served, has suffered.
Eric Greitens -
I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson -
The nature of bad news affects the teller.
William Shakespeare -
There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.
Susan Minot -
My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I established myself here, there was nothing but a farmhouse and a poor orchard...I bought the house and little by little I enlarged and organized it...I dug, planted weeded, myself; in the evenings the children watered.
Claude Monet