Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

Russia's first major intervention began in 1768, when Catherine the Great went to war with the Ottomans, and Count Alexei Orlov, the brother of her lover Grigory, sailed the Baltic fleet through the Strait of Gibraltar to rally rebellions in the Mediterranean.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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GreatWarBrotherFirstCountHer

These kids are looking for direction, for identification. Kids join gangs because they need a father figure or they want to be part of a group.

Jesse White

FatherLookingDirectionWantGroup

When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response.

Ann Hood

DeathBrainWillAlwaysActivity

I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.

Angela Ahrendts

SmallSmall TownEducatedUniversity

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

Michael Gerber

WorkBusinessSaidJustFourYour

I loved having Indian take-aways on a Friday night in Liverpool, but it's so different in the real India.

Amy Jackson

NightLovedFridayIndiaReal

I think, so many times in society, women are expected to behave a certain way. You are raised to say 'sorry' and 'excuse me', and get out of the way.

Stephanie Beatriz

WomenMeSocietySorryThinkYou

I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to shoot everything on film.

Steven Spielberg

StepPlanningDigitalFirstShoot

I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.

Rupert Graves

SchoolAmericanScholarshipNever

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

Dean Koontz

NameYearYouWantNeedOwn

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

Cornel West

PeopleChanceThinkYouPoorPolicy

A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get its act together.

Alice Dreger

TogetherMedicalPeopleBodyAct

People go into a gallery, and they're afraid to express their opinions about art. No one's afraid to say, 'Keanu Reeves was bad in that movie.' We see so many films that we can tell who's faking it. But with art, we can't always tell.

William Quigley

ArtPeopleOpinionsBadGoSay

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