Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov Quotes
Incorruptible people do not exist at all. Everyone just has their own price.
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
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I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.
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I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
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One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace' premiered in July, so that I could go and meet people that I wanted to meet: the writers and the directors and the people that are doing things.
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I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
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A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.
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Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.
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People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different.
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I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
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It's important for people to recognize that they shouldn't ignore symptoms like shortness of breath or a cough that won't go away, because these may be signs of COPD.
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If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.
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I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.
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When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.
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It's fun to play the type of people you dislike.
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I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters and horses. I even learned to box. Muhammad Ali is my hero.
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A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
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I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative.
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The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.
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Incorruptible people do not exist at all. Everyone just has their own price.
