Margarita Simonyan Quotes
The information weapon, of course, is used in critical moments, and war is always a critical moment.

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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things.
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With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more.
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A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
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The information weapon, of course, is used in critical moments, and war is always a critical moment.