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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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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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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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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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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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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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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Rules emerge as a spontaneous order–they are found–not deliberately designed by one calculating mind. Initially constructivist institutions undergo evolutionary change adapting beyond the circumstances that gave them birth. What emerges is a form of 'social mind' that solves complex organization problems without conscious cognition.
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Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.
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It's important that people understand that 'Strong Island' is just as much about this claim of reasonable fear and our need to interrogate reasonable fear as it is about my family's grief.
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Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head straight off. I've read it three times, and I'm still trying to figure out how she put that magnificent thing together.
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The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.
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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.
