Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.
Ted Deutch -
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
Earl Wilson -
When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'
Vicki Lawrence -
Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
Tamra Davis -
Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
J. Paul Getty -
Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
A. N. Wilson
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
Talulah Riley -
No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
Daniel Gilbert -
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde -
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore -
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
Garrison Keillor -
I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
Halima Aden
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I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
Calamity Jane -
A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
Pamela Sargent -
I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
Adam Arkin -
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
Irwin Shaw -
The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
Paddy Considine -
I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
Sally Mann
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This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name.
Nahmanides -
There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
It's great to finally win here in Japan.
Helio Castroneves -
Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.
George Clooney -
Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.
Rufus Choate -
I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!
Fyodor Dostoevsky