Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
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I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions.
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The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
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My dad died of a heart attack when I was 15. I was bullied mercilessly in middle school. I went through a divorce - those not-so-great things are all a part of me, and they give me a place to go when I cover those stories on the news. I'm more empathetic, more relatable because of them.
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Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
