Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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When my son was born, I decided I wasn't really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit.

Jim McKelvey

SonDayMeDownBornLittle

The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.

John Tavener

MusicRainMyselfGrandfatherThree

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

Steven Pinker

ChangeConflictBadClimate Change

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

Mo Yan

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Even people that are close to me or people that are acquaintances... The only question I get now is, 'How is music going?' It's an overpowering quality of my life now, the fact that I write songs. It's weird to navigate what that means socially.

Lucy Dacus

LifeMusicQualityPeopleMeWeird

I had a job to take care of my parents, to take care of some bills at the house, because my daddy wasn't working. I had to figure out how to make that all work at one time. I was working at Boston Market... I told my coach, 'I can't play football because I have to make money to help my mom.'

Jason Pierre-Paul

WorkTimeMoneyFootballJobMom

Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.

Bob Saget

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Everything is a risk in Pakistan: If you defend women, it's a risk. If you defend non-Muslims it's a risk. If you discuss religion, it's a risk. But you can't really sit there like a vegetable in your own society. And I'm committed to that society... and I feel I need to turn around and speak as I should.

Asma Jahangir

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The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

Richard Paul Evans

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I've always surrounded myself with funny people.

Leslie Mann

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Doors being closed or made harder to open is something I'm very familiar with - and I don't like it.

Lennie James

DoorsOpenBeingSomethingMade

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.

Gustav Stresemann

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