Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes
What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.
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Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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Most inventions are based on some prior history.
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Whenever there was a pause on the 'Hercules' set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out of their skirts - 'Are you texting the King of Thrace to tell them we're on our way?'
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When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
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A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power.
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One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.
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I've accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.
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Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.
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This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must be engraved on your hearts in letters of fire. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool metal. That’s all.
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In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.
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What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.
