Alexei Mordashov Quotes
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I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
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It's so funny: at 'SNL,' Bill Hader always kind of treated me like his little sister and would kind of, like, lovingly bully me.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
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I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.
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I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.
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I have crazy eyebrows, so it's crucial to tame them. Just like your hair, they set off your features.
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If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
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I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.
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The best time is always yesterday.
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
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If you have doubt about a person's humility or smarts, don't ignore it. More often than not, there is something causing that doubt.
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A manager has to convince his hitters that they have to get on base for the next guy and that no player can do it by himself. Sometimes that isn't easy. In the playoffs, you can get into trouble because everybody wants to be a hero.
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When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
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I really like bowling.
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If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.
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She appears to have a face that would stop a clock and raise hell with small watches, bless her heart.
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Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.
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The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
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What you need to keep most in the U.S. is the entrepreneurial spirit.
