Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.
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One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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I hung out with the jocks. It doesn't mean I necessarily was one. I was just kind of there.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire.
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More and more of the world's population is gaining access to the same kind of computing power and connectivity that has transformed daily life for developed nations.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
