Arkady Volozh Quotes
I think Yandex is something in between two different cultures. One originated from the old Soviet culture of the scientific institute. It was a free atmosphere of scientists, maybe too free because nobody cared about making money. Another origin is something close to what you usually see in California startups.
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
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If you do something, expect consequences.
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I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
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I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that.
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The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.
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Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.
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The future of the world's film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.
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I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.
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I think Yandex is something in between two different cultures. One originated from the old Soviet culture of the scientific institute. It was a free atmosphere of scientists, maybe too free because nobody cared about making money. Another origin is something close to what you usually see in California startups.
