Margarita Simonyan Quotes
When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we can't say whatever, which is absolutely, absolutely, completely untrue.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
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Actually I dance really well on the floor.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.
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I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.
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Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.
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I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.
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I was always religious. I was baptized as a Catholic. I got my daughter baptized as a Catholic.
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When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we can't say whatever, which is absolutely, absolutely, completely untrue.
