Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness.
Quotes to Explore
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Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.
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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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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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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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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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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.
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What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
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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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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
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I think people in electronic music are trying to get these big features: 'Oh my gosh, I'm gonna get the biggest pop star to feature on my track.'
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Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
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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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If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work.
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Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of me. Protect my home, protect my streets, protect my car, protect my life, protect my property...worry about becoming a human being and not about how you can prevent others from enjoying their lives because of your own inability to adjust to life.
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Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.
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A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.
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If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness.
