Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price.
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When I was growing up, I wanted to be my half-sister Lucy. She was 14 years older than me and was impossibly glamorous. I grew up in awe of her.
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
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I think a lot of people are projecting their own troubles and fears concerning sexuality onto those around them, and it does result in the perpetuation of a lot of hateful notions. As long as I can remember, I've felt really horrified watching those dynamics play out.
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Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
