Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Working gets in the way of living.
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Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
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If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.
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When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together.
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I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
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It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.
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I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.
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Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
