Evgeni Plushenko Quotes
I skate for the fans. It's not as fun without them there supporting me. I get energy from them and I want to skate well for them. They relax me. They make me happy when I skate for them. I feel the Americans like me more and more each time I tour.
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.
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I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
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In ancient China, self-government was highly developed both in community life and in personal life. The custom of mutual protection and assistance was widespread. The organization and regulations of local self-government were clearly defined and strictly applied. Individual self-control was even more strongly emphasized.
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I have the same skin-care routine morning and night, although I'm not one of those people who always uses the same products. My skin changes with the weather.
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Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help yourself. A thrilling, colourful array of gorgeous human peculiarity revolves before your eyes, and you still can't quite believe it's all yours for the taking.
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I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.
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What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'
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Our bodies were tired, but we had so much energy inside we didn't know.
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Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.
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The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.
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And it gives me positive personal pain to see heirs of the eternal kingdom, made such by the ignominious death of their Lord, go shrinking and weeping to the full possession of their inheritance.
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I skate for the fans. It's not as fun without them there supporting me. I get energy from them and I want to skate well for them. They relax me. They make me happy when I skate for them. I feel the Americans like me more and more each time I tour.
