Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.
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I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.
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Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
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I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.
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When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.
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I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.
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It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.
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I'm very happy and very excited when my adrenalin is going.
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The capitalist system only allows us to heap up waste. I would like to propose that the trillions of money earmarked for war should be channeled to make good the damage to the environment, to make reparations to the earth.
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It all seems so permanent, so old and new at the same time. But I wonder if I will ever feel completely new again. Or will I spend the rest of my life feeling like a walking disease?
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Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.
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I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.
