Boris Nemtsov Quotes
The system always breaks down in Russia when irreconcilable contradictions develop within the ruling clan
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
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I look a lot like my father and his mother.
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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.
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And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
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We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.
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Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.
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There is no evil as terrible as a woman.
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.
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Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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It can be assured that once the U.S. deploys its missile defense system in Poland, Russia would respond by deploying its own missile defense system in Kaliningrad.
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I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.
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I have to have something that really excites me in order to write about it.
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Here’s the million-dollar question: how are you going to write this book if you’re afraid to start writing? Give your friend Doubt a name, and then block his calls.
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The system always breaks down in Russia when irreconcilable contradictions develop within the ruling clan
