Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Why count the days, when even one days is enough for a man to know all happiness?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

  

  Victoria Moran
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• There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

  

  Ted Rall
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• I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.

  

  Laura Dern
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• To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

  

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• Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
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  • Death

• I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Good
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• You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
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• You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • You
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• At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Home
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• Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
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• Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.

  

  Zac Efron
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• When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Contract
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• People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?

  

  Zoe Saldana
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• I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

  

  Yuna
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• A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

  

  Oliver Herford
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• That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
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• Love is not all: it is not meat nor drinkNor slumber nor a roof against the rain;Nor yet a floating spar to men that sinkAnd rise and sink and rise and sink again;Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;Yet many a man is making friends with deathEven as I speak, for lack of love alone.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Men
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  • Alone

• Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.

  

  Elliott Carter
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• No movie has ever got enough time. It doesn't matter how much money you've got, and it doesn't matter how much money you've not got. You never finish on time. You're always up against it and you're always working up until the end.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• My grandmother had a cupboard where she kept her collections and textile samples of all sorts of things. When I had good grades, I could take out one piece of work to look at.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
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  • Work
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• Why count the days, when even one days is enough for a man to know all happiness?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
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