Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play rock shows and have tons of tattoos, they will still go to church on Sunday and do their best to live that kind of a life.
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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
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A man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.
