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Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

'Daddy used to be a Georgian,' Stalin's son, Vasily, once said. Actually, the dictator didn't truly become Russian; he remained Georgian culturally. Yet he embraced the imperial mission of the Russian people.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: June 27, 1965

Topics

Son People Mission Said Become Used

Growing up, I didn't really like folk music - I wasn't a fan of Bob Dylan. I grew up mostly listening to rap and hip-hop; it was this new form of music.

Max Casella

Music Growing Up Listening Growing

If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion.

Matt Mullenweg

Business Best Job Opinion Start You

I don't know how many modern families watch 'Modern Family,' but then one of the points of 'Modern Family' is that it's hard to tell what a modern family is anymore, let alone what it does.

Steve Erickson

Family Alone Know Hard Tell Modern

I class myself with Rin Tin Tin. People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog and a little girl.

Shirley Temple

Dog Love Girl Myself Depression Up

Uber riders are the most affluent, influential people in their cities.

Travis Kalanick

People Uber Most Influential Riders

If there are only three guys at the top of the organization handling things, it's the definition of a bankrupt company. In creating leaders without titles, we are going to have organizations with people at the helm putting forth their best.

Robin S. Sharma

Best People Organization Creating

In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do that from a very patronizing place, but mostly we do it from a very selfish place, to reassure ourselves that our lives are in sympathy and solidarity with the victims.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Sympathy Selfish Tradition Place

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

God Men Man You Your Nor

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Potential Feel Up Discouraged Many

Transnational organized cybercriminal groups have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and ordinary citizens.

Dmitri Alperovitch

Financial Organized Ordinary Stolen

If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.

Cornel Wilde

Bad Reason No Reason Shock Except

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.'

William Least Heat-Moon

Life Personality I Am River Spirit