Mikhail Prokhorov Quotes
No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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I'm not good at a lot of things. I am not good at keeping my room clean. I am not good at eating healthy. I am not good at sports anymore. I used to be! Not so much anymore.
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I was not a great bartender, but I did OK. I wasn't great at being efficient behind the bar, but I was pretty great at talking to people. I was a pretty good waiter. It was painstaking to get me to care about the clientele of some of these places I was working at.
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Voters, whatever their political views, should rise up against politicians who want to dilute the Bill of Rights to perpetuate their tenure in office.
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'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.
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I was always singing to myself, but I never ever performed, and I never told anyone I liked to sing. So it was a definitely a new adventure going in to audition for 'Glee.'
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Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
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Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
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I'm just so grateful and astonished that I'm still respected and listened to.
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The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
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Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.
