Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.
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I have not mutated myself in any way.
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Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God's judgment. I don't reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.
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There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
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We can still turn the world upside down. We can be living torches for Christ today.
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....were appointed by the IRA, not the governments.
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Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state.
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Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
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What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.
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I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school. I know [people] who had the popular, good-looking path in high school; they tend not to do so well. It was a little bit too easy for them, where for those of us who struggled in every sense, perhaps our determination and self-reliance and discipline were reinforced by that.
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For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.
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Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
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Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.
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From a young age, I was a pretty good listener, a strong lady. Maybe it helped me that I never felt intimidated by anybody. Even at school, I was always strong. I believed in myself, in what I do.
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Italian women or French women are no more sexy than American women and English women. This is a myth, invented by Hollywood producers, who invite foreign stars to star in the cinema.
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I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.