Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

Lenin had just reflected that the revolution would never happen in his lifetime when in February 1917, hungry crowds in Petrograd overthrew Nicholas II while the revolutionaries were abroad, exiled, or infiltrated by the secret police.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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PoliceFebruaryRevolutionNever

Brexit doesn't guarantee that migration will come down.

Jo Cox

DownWillMigrationGuaranteeCome

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

Maximilian Schell

LifeYouLightsPlansOperaOwn

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

Jeff Bezos

DestinationFindWantBuyAnything

Small business owners and entrepreneurs worthy of the title need to build systems that replace themselves.

Michael Gerber

BusinessSmallBuildNeedWorthy

There must be so many people who have various artistic talents that, for whatever reason, just have no way of expressing them. Either they have no support from their family or they live in a part of the world, maybe they've never heard a piano or seen a piano.

Stephen Hough

FamilyLiveSupportPeopleWorld

I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.

Sia

HomeLuckyOfficeDogsSitSofa

You want supply to always be full, and you use price to basically either bring more supply on or get more supply off, or get more demand in the system or get some demand out.

Travis Kalanick

YouPriceWantMoreAlwaysOut

I don't think there's a more battle-hardened veteran anywhere than Larry Summers.

Roger Altman

ThinkMoreAnywhereThanVeteran

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

Denzel Washington

MyselfEnoughAwardPartyKnowBeen

It's difficult to articulate how I know it's the right actor, but I do. It's instinct. Intuition.

Christopher Guest

KnowActorDifficultRightIntuition

The funniest women I've known are Southern. It is such a vital way to get what you want. Charm and grace and a sense of humor will take you a long way.

Connie Britton

WomenHumorGraceLongYouWant

I felt the way people talked to me was like, 'It's OK to be No. 2 in the NFL, a backup,' and things like that. That's never been my approach.

Colin Kaepernick

PeopleMeWayNeverThingsNFL

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