Mikhail Prokhorov Quotes

Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?

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• 'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Challenge
  • Envy
  • Smooth

• I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Imagination

• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Movies

• I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Like
  • Being
  • Himself

• I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Song

• Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Simple
  • Trust
  • Try

• I joined forces with the American Cancer Society in 2010 as a spokesperson for the N.F.L.'s 'A Crucial Catch' campaign, which benefits the American Cancer Society. This was important to me because I lost my mother to breast cancer, and I have always felt a strong commitment to doing all I can to fight this disease.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Important
  • American
  • Mother

• Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women

• A tinker’s debt is always paid:Once for any simple trade.Twice for freely given aid.Thrice for any insult made.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Simple

• Doctors try to get rid of their patients - clergymen try to get them hooked on the medicine so that they will become addicts to the church. 1

  

  Alan Watts
  • Church

• Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.

  

  Bibhu Mohapatra
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• I am just happy that I have children. I don't care what they want to do!

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Children
  • Happy

• When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Mind
  • Vision

• Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

  

  Joe Baca

• What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Rock
  • Poetry

• Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

  

  Marquis De Custine
  • Good

• It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.

  

  Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones
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• I'm not in politics.

  

  David Attenborough

• And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

  

  Allen Klein
  • World
  • Financial

• There's a ceiling when it comes to genetics. I'm a huge believer in the mind. I feel like anticipation is a key to the success of the game and I feel that's where I thrive. Being able to anticipate, prepare and live in the details of the game.

  

  Will Compton
  • Game
  • Success
  • Details

• I think any woman who has lost a child and certainly lost more than one child, there's going to be a part of them that they keep closed off forever.

  

  Jean Smart
  • Lost
  • Forever

• The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

  

  Confucius
  • Change
  • Proper
  • Governs

• Very rarely does anyone say that the TV is better than the book.

  

  Gerald Seymour
  • Book
  • Anyone
  • Rarely

• Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?

  

  Mikhail Prokhorov
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