Anatoly Chubais Quotes

I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.

I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.

There are two kinds of games in economics. One is the game where people use only legal moves. Then there is the true game, the one like real life, where the strategies and moves people make, some of them contain illegal gains.

I actually thought, like, I was sure 'Get Smart' and, like, 'James Bond' movies, I was sure that that's what real life was like.

I think everyone practices their Oscars acceptance speech with a shampoo bottle, and I've done my fair share of them. It's really surreal to be able to do it in real life.

Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.

Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.

Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for the clothes, but it's not what you want in real life.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life.

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.

There are so many beautiful girls who aren't photogenic. In real life, half the models you see look really hideous.

On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.

In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems.

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.

I would say don't take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We're very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you, 'Liquidize your assets; buy Powerball tickets - it works!'

Bad policy tends to be done in a rush.

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.