Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.
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I felt a little anxious/nervous representing a real person in a Spike Lee film.
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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
