Arcadi Gaydamak Quotes
In 1992, I was an official of the Angolan regime. I was appointed by that country to oversee the organization of the raw diamond market and responsible for the governmental authority that later controlled this market.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down.
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I think people, for the most part, actually want what they think is best.
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It's a robust time, probably the most fertile time for the underground and for revolution since Nixon. I'm not talking about political overthrow; I'm talking about just general cultural revolution. Bush has polarised the country and is creating this breeding ground for an opposition. In the next couple of months, they'll probably make it unpatriotic to be Democrat. It's pretty crazy.
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What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.
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In 1992, I was an official of the Angolan regime. I was appointed by that country to oversee the organization of the raw diamond market and responsible for the governmental authority that later controlled this market.
