Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.

Val McDermid
- Time
- House
- Doing
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

Questlove
- Up
- Losing
- Circle
In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.

Paige VanZant
- You
- Fighting
- Fighter
We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.

Carlos Slim
As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

Ted Cruz
- American
- Mother
- Legal
Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

Jackie Evancho
- Parents
- Childhood
- Summer