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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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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Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
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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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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 guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said.
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I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?
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I've never cheated on my wife, ever. But to say that it doesn't exist or it doesn't happen and saying you never deal with it would be lying.
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Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.
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I went to, while I was in the military, Western New England College for my MBA and New England School of Law for my law degree.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
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Four-men aren't used to picking up guys pushing the ball in transition. Let alone, somebody getting the rebound and just busting.
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No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.
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No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.
