Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor
Quotes to Explore
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
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When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
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If you're cast on 'The Vampire Diaries,' the likelihood of you dying is very good.
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From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.
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I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.
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Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.
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I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.
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I think the problem we have as apes is we're asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process.
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The supreme style of love is unknown love. If the affection is known by the beloved, that love is snob. If you sacrifice your life for the beloved, and she recognises your love after you die, your soul would be appraised.
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On this significant occasion, all Koreans pay tribute to the heroes fallen in defense of freedom and democracy. I firmly believe that future generations in both countries will further advance the strong Republic of Korea-U.S. alliance into one befitting the spirit of the new age.
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We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.
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Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor
