Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

Stalin, of course, never went on trial, but his legacy did. In 1956, three years after his death, he was denounced by Nikita Khrushchev. And his crimes were even more explicitly exposed by Mikhail Gorbachev during the late '80s. Yet to many, Stalin remains more legitimate as a Russian leader than anyone since.

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To my way of thinking, passive management of file assets is okay for screwing around with iPads, where we're mainly watching TV on Netflix or obsessive-compulsively checking the popularity of our Instagram uploads.

Jeffrey Zeldman

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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne

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We all have levels of performance.

Angela Lansbury

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I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

Jeff Bridges

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No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

Stacy Schiff

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Barack Obama could solve this problem and get the birthers to back off... by showing his long form birth certificate.

Trent Franks

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The only thing with press attention is that it can be very draining on our energy store.

Louise Wilson

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I will do everything, everything in my power, for as long as I am here, to enable the people of King Cove to receive proper emergency access that the rest of us take for granted.

Lisa Murkowski

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My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'

Josh Charles

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I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications?

Craig Hatkoff

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They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.

Cindy Crawford

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The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

Brendan Myers

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