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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. Igor Stravinsky

Me Genius Opportunities Will Variety Never Know Exhaust Offer Human Rhythm Notes Twelve Each

In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career, and you have to be strong inside because so many people come around and try to say bad things about you. Irina Shayk

Work You Business Yourself People Strong Try Mind Be Strong Bad Things Say Bad Inside About Come Sure Because Around Very So Many People Should Your Many Things Career

In Russia, we eat a lot of heavy food like potatoes and lots of meat. I can't eat one apple or a salad a day. You wouldn't want to come talk to me if I don't eat. I have to eat, or I am in a really bad mood. Irina Shayk

I believe women should be independent and have their own life. But I also think that when a couple decides to have a family, things change because you need to live in unison. Irina Shayk

Life Family You Change Women Own Live Believe Think Independent Couple Also Because Decide Should Unison Things Need

To understand is to perceive patterns. Isaiah Berlin

Perceive Understand Patterns

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds. Isaiah Berlin

Silence People Men Free First Minds Destroy Ideas First People

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves. Ivan Turgenev

Love Character People Fate Brainy Will Responsibility Own Having Taking Firmness Make Make Up Without Up Them Themselves Necessity

Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Light Space Will First Earth Atmosphere Emerge Remain Pursuit Advance He Bounds Until Forever Mankind Then Whole Conquered

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. Leo Tolstoy

Love People Care Live Other All People Any Them Themselves Reason

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws. Leon Trotsky

Art Own Laws Like Insurrection Arts

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself. Maria Sharapova

Myself Being Myself Own Think Other Follow My Own Schedule Never Tournaments Like Oh Just Being Want Really Play Thing Players

I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite. Maria Sharapova

Love Home Training Black Dinner Girl Breakfast Tea Nice Lunch Type Our Background Favorite Russian Drink Between Come Cup Jam Where After Afternoon English

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid. Maxim Gorky

Stupid Everything Easy Quickly Gets

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. Mikhail Bakunin

State Domination Turn Then Slavery

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour. Mikhail Kalashnikov

Could Had Make Wood Grain Special Mill Designed Flour Mills

I made it to protect the motherland. Mikhail Kalashnikov

Made Protect Motherland

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable. Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Fate Inevitable Russia Left Turn Necessary

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. Morris Raphael Cohen

Life Good Achievement Risks Progress Will Other Liberalism Must No Guarantee Rather Take True Adventure New Always Inevitability Hand Precarious Than Situations Regards Which Guarantee

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano. Mstislav Rostropovich

Life Destination Aim Piano Instrument Make Cello Beloved Violin

People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role. Mstislav Rostropovich

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Own Shadows Terrified Prisoners Afraid

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. Nathalie Sarraute

Sphere Television Out Lifted Major Industry Banality Handicraft Placed Manufacture

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles. Nathalie Sarraute

Art Musicians People Try Duty All People Something Attention Feel Look Make Without Styles Move Paying Who Painters Novelists

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