Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
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My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
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I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
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To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.
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I don't know if my songs fit in films.
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
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If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
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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 don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.
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If you don't love what you are doing, it could be misery.
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The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.
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A good angel is only a dead angel.
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All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
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Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts calls the “skin-encapsulated ego.” Without love, we are self-centered, but love enables us to move the center of our lives outside our ego. Therefore it expands our lives and, needless to say, enriches it. Any human being would give anything to love or be loved. When it really happens, it is like heaven on earth.
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Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
