Mikhail Prokhorov Quotes

I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.

Mikhail Prokhorov

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• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Israel
  • Hatred
  • Decade

• 'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Therapy
  • Figure
  • Contemplating

• I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Dark

• You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • You
  • Treat

• I believe I've accomplished my goals of trying to get better every year, and a little bit of that, a little bit of luck, a little bit of everything just falls in place, and you end up on top.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Trying

• I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Children
  • Emotional

• I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• I enjoy every second I'm in the gym. I love to challenge myself, push myself; obviously there's a lot of different routines and a lot of different stuff we do - love cycling, and again, it's part of my lifestyle.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Different
  • Love
  • Myself

• Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Bad
  • You
  • Ride

• American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • American
  • House
  • Society

• Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Women

• Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth's climate. We see the damage that a disrupted climate can do: on our coasts, our farms, forests, mountains, and cities. Those impacts will grow more severe unless we start reducing global warming pollution now.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Earth
  • Start
  • Grow

• For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Time
  • Long
  • Discipline

• You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.

  

  Edward de Bono
  • Different

• And so one becomes, or I become, anyway, slightly obsessive, particularly about my health, because you wouldn't want to read the letters people write when you're off and they're disappointed - it's so awful, the guilt one feels for not being there.

  

  Elaine Paige
  • People
  • Health

• I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Magazines
  • Black People

• Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.

  

  F. Sionil José
  • Time
  • Hate

• A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.

  

  Celia Imrie
  • Fun
  • Laughter
  • Naughty

• I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.

  

  Mikhail Prokhorov
  • Parent
  • Clever