Pyotr Aven Quotes

We have a lot of people with a Western education who work in Russia and understand the international rules of business and corporate governance.

Pyotr Aven

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WorkEducationBusinessPeopleRules

The Latino population has become such a presence. We are part of the American tapestry in a very profound way, in every area you can think of, and are very significant in popular culture.

Jimmy Smits

CultureThinkAmericanYouBecome

I've been just unsuccessful enough not to have been given a big opportunity too soon.

Jeff Nichols

OpportunityEnoughBigBeenJust

But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman.

Stevie Nicks

WomanHappyChildMeBabyWalking

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

Mary Wollstonecraft

WomenPowerWrongStopWillRight

I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players, another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.

Donald Dunn

GoodManGuitarComplicatedTwoUp

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

Donald Rumsfeld

PeopleGunSmokingSayWantTry

What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like a really romantic idea of a poet, writer or musician - which isn't really true a lot of the time. I don't reckon you would know anything about me if I wasn't moderately hard-working.

Courtney Barnett

FunnyTimeRomanticPeopleMeThink

My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.

Bob Schieffer

WorkJobStepChanceBackEveryone

When me and my brother would go to see our daddy playing, there'd be 30 people in the audience. I was only 14 or 15, but I realised something was wrong.

Wynton Marsalis

BrotherPeopleMeWrongGoSee

I keep making the music I do because I feel very purposeful about making things that would be helpful or quell some loneliness in people. I really needed that when I listened to music growing up and even now, so I don't mind that sense of duty.

Perfume Genius

MusicLonelinessPeopleMindFeel

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.

Shelley Berman

WorkLoveLookingActingFirst

I just love action movies. People are like, 'What comedy movies did you grow up watching?' And I'm like, 'Not many.'

Thomas Middleditch

LovePeopleActionGrowComedyYou

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