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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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I try to photobomb as much as possible.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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When my friends have a health concern, they call me. I've always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!
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The books were a private part of me that I carried inside and guarded and didn't talk to anybody about; as long as I had the books I could convince myself I was different from the others and my life wasn't quite as stupid and pointless.
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I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
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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.
