Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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All I ever really work for is to be a really good engineer, a good producer, a good executive, good in the world of Beats. That's power to me.
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When I am doing music, I sometimes become over compulsive to 'always make some new music'. I think I am like this because I sense what others are perceiving me as. If I work extraordinarily hard because of these expectations, I will, but I just cannot produce the good music that I want.
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I heard them cry - the peacocks. Was it a cry against the twilight Or against the leaves themselves Turning in the wind, Turning as the flames Turned in the fire, Turning as the tails of the peacocks Turned in the loud fire, Loud as the hemlocks Full of the cry of the peacocks? Or was it a cry against the hemlocks?
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
