Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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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.
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I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way.
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Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.
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I spend a lot of my time looking into people's bags and handbags - with their permission, of course.
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The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
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Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.
