Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
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That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
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Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.
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Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him. It was his face. It was whether or not he'd approve of my playing.
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It works well for my skating. I like the fact it gives weight to spins and jumps that were only checked off (under the 6.0 system). I'm really excited for the new system at Nationals.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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I love Comme des Garcons. I think everything she touches is almost like gold. And she does it so quietly. No branding.
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An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently
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Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.
