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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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 used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits at a time!
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If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?
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Science repulses the indefinite.
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I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have the core classical training, which I did for many, many years, but also be interested in the pop side of things. You can fit in somewhere in the middle. I feel I do that really well.
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He kept us off-balance. He didn't really give up too many hard-hit balls.
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Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
