Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Information
  • Public
  • Almost

• When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Idea
  • Young
  • Become

• Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Better
  • Down

• I'm a huge Nirvana fan.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Fan
  • Huge
  • Nirvana

• It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.

  

  Flume
  • Fun
  • Voice
  • Explore

• I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

  

  Wendy Carlos
  • You
  • Wish
  • Lifetime

• If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Money

• Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Problem
  • Where
  • Risks

• As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Man
  • Fight
  • Sexy

• But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Time
  • Think
  • Know

• Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

  

  O. Henry
  • Power
  • Funeral

• There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist, except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Unique

• Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.

  

  Lawrence Durrell

• I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to go and what we wanted it to sound like. And we knew that we wanted it to be big, we wanted it to be booming over the speakers at an arena or something.

  

  Andrew Dost Fun.
  • Song
  • Question
  • Beginning

• Before running for Congress, I was an innovator and entrepreneur who founded several high-tech businesses that created hundreds of jobs and schools that found ways to serve those children that traditional schools couldn't.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Children
  • High
  • Running

• President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.

  

  David Powers
  • Friend

• Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Great
  • Country
  • Fear

• Yes, I do have a soft spot for complicated villains who can't help themselves.

  

  Judith Tarr
  • Complicated
  • Spot
  • Villains

• Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Good
  • Solution
  • Economics

• What was done is measure directly, with exquisitely sensitive instruments, gravitational waves predicted about 100 years ago by Albert Einstein. These waves are a new way to study the universe and are expected to have significant impact on astronomy and astrophysics in the years ahead.

  

  Rainer Weiss
  • Universe
  • Impact
  • Expected

• The start of 2016 offers great promise as the world awakens to the power of connectivity and increasing digitization. The new Digital Age is upon us, and it is unlike anything we have experienced before.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • World
  • Great
  • Power

• Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky