Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Quotes to Explore
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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I'm not graceful.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.
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Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.
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Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
