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Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

After the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian influence collapsed, and Moscow came to bitterly resent the Western interventions that destroyed Mr. Hussein and Colonel Qaddafi.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Influence Destroyed Soviet Union Came

I don't know... I don't think you can trust any of Kurt's characters. That's how Mr. Sutter operates: nothing is what it seems.

Jimmy Smits

Trust Think You Know Nothing Seems

My prayers are being answered for my career. These are prayers I've been praying for as a kid.

Andra Day

Career Kid Being Prayers Been

We all want to thank Emmitt for allowing us to enjoy every yard.

Michael Irvin

Enjoy Want Us Yard Every Allowing

By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us.

John Scalzi

Future Technology Eyes Time Man New

I always find that the more Jewish you are, the more people respect you.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Respect People You Find More Jewish

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Robert Byrne

Mother Invention Caught Getting

Nothing in the world in perfect. Even a still photograph.

Roger Rees

World Perfect Nothing Photograph

I desperately miss my girls when I am working, and I often feel guilty, but also feel the journey I am on is for them too. When I am on my 16th hour of a day and can barely keep my eyes open, they drive me forward.

Mika Brzezinski

Journey Eyes Day I Am Me Drive

My son was about five or six months old, and he was ill, and I was sent to New York to interview three people back to back. I got home, and I saw my baby. He had been very ill, and he was on three kinds of antibiotics. I'd been away for eight days. I looked at him and thought, 'What am I doing? I'm a terrible mother and a terrible journalist.'

Allison Pearson

Mother Home Son New York Baby Doing

Well, let me tell you, if you're 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you're not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That's a media-driven ideal that you're never going to healthfully obtain.

Phil McGraw

Children Day School Me High School

Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through voluntary institutions. This is one of the most important tensions in capitalism.

Tyler Cowen

Love Hate People Capitalism Done

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

Timothy Zahn

Change Me Luck Smiling Security She