You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed. --Doom with a View
(The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.)" ( , 1738)
I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
Everyone in my country understands that Russia cannot do without Europe and that, vice versa, Europe cannot do without Russia. We depend on cooperation.
St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.
The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.
Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.
Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.
In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.
I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.
To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?
I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.
I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
