Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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Whether it's just walking down the street to try to go to a movie, go to dinner, something like that, there are always a few people that recognize you.
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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My biggest challenge in making 'The Devil Wears Prada' was simply to maintain a tone of sophistication and reality. It's about the fashion world, or it's set in the fashion world, and that's a world that's easy to mock. It's easy to satirise people trying to lose weight and choosing between fancy clothes.
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Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless
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I just happen to be a woman and involved in sport, but that doesn't necessarily make me a feminist.
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It's easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
