Mikhail Prokhorov Quotes
Money is not the thing that drives me. I like to develop assets to create value. No one cares how rich you are or what your ranking is in Forbes magazine.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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All my books are optimistic!
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.
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I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of.
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Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
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All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Some people have certain beliefs, and I have my own belief, and we can agree to disagree on certain things.
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Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills.
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I became a lightning rod for some partisan battles. I could not be prouder of the track record we've put together. By almost every measure, the country is significantly better off than when I came in.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.
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Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.
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Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument.
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Money is not the thing that drives me. I like to develop assets to create value. No one cares how rich you are or what your ranking is in Forbes magazine.
