Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
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It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.
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I think my father had a certain degree of insecurity and need to achieve.
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My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.
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Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.
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I do think 'All Is by My Side' is the type of film I'm the most happiest.
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When you have a lot of women in our state that do wear the hijab, we should be able to see that everywhere.
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I, of course, was born as if I was a movie star in my head. Even though I had nothing, in my head I was always royalty. My mother always said, 'I don't know where you came from'. I didn't have their value system. And I always lived beyond my means.
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All white people in the United States have benefited from a white supremacy. But does that mean that a white person should be viewed badly because they turn against a white supremacist policy? Just because you've benefited from something shouldn't disable you from repudiating it.
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The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
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This above all makes history useful and desirable: it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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'He's quiet as well, especially if you stalk him.'
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..the function of art work is.. ..the renewal of memories of moments of perfection.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.
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I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.
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I try to be home for dinner, but I'm not there enough. I sometimes feel I'm still fumbling, getting it wrong, but I make my way.
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If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
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I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I'm just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know.
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All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.
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Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
