"I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go."

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Source : 2000 On his retirement. In the Observer, 2 Jan.

Boris Yeltsin

#Past Quotes #People Quotes #Forgive Me Quotes

“I only painted when I felt like it and needed money. But it never really became a professional thing, even though the dealers would have liked that.”
“Now, the relationship the storyteller has with the audience is a much higher quality relationship. You treat them with a lot more intelligence because the truth is that it's not my fault if you don't know what's going on. There are plenty of ways for you to find out. You can talk to all kinds of people, and you've got access to all this information. The onus is no longer on us, as a storyteller, to tell you. You can go out and find out yourself.”
“Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.”
“The only way to live free, the only way to live your life as an offering of love, is to feel everything fully and live open.”
“I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.”
“All my life I have fought corruption.”
“One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.”
“Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?”

Source : "The Liberation of Sound: An Introduction to Electronic Music". Book by Herbert Russcol, 1972.

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