Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.
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I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
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Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.
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No one's female and male, we all have so many different traits. It's just a lie that these certain traits are male and these certain traits are female.
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It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.
