"You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia."

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Anatoly Chubais

#Country Quotes #Russia Quotes #Able Quotes

“No one loves an archive better than I do. I can smell a good one half-a-block away - all that brittle papyrus dust is music to my nostrils.”

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“What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?”
“If you love language, it will love you back.”
“You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.”
“I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?”
“Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.”
“Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.”
“It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.”

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