Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.

  

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• Life is too short to blend in.

  

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• I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

  

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• I don't like allegories.

  

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• I just respect Kanye as an artist.

  

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• Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

  

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• Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.

  

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• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

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• Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

  

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• But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.

  

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• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

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• One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.

  

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• As a musician usually music is your way out.

  

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• I'd never been published when I was young.

  

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• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

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• I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

  

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• I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.

  

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• I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. But I also see why it's appealing - I've had that little high you get from posting stuff online. But then you think, 'Did I need to say that?' I've explored that enough to know to stay kind of quiet these days.

  

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• Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual.

  

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• Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.

  

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• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  

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• We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we've got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on this planet and live good lives. What we haven't done is developed our technology.

  

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• In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • True
  • Simple