Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
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I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
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My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
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I take no pride in having been the first public personality to come out publicly against Simpson. It just happened that way.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
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I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.
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We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
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Some feelings are to mortals givenWith less of earth in them than heaven;And if there be a human tearFrom passion's dross refined and clear,A tear so limpid and so meekIt would not stain an angel's cheek,'Tis that which pious fathers shedUpon a duteous daughter's head!
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It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.
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That says it all. When you say, 'Victory,' that says it all.
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I think if you listen to our records, they come at different points in your life. When people say to me that Stars records have themes, I think what they mean is we write songs - or try to write songs - that are timeless. We try to write songs that catch you at the right time in your life, and that you can hold on to. We write kitchen sink songs. If you're doing the dishes or you're driving to your mom's funeral, or if you're getting over having done MDMA and you feel sad, you can listen to Stars because we're not going to demand of you that you be cool.
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Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.
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I can live for two months on a good compliment.
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It's a new world, Arcane...It's full of shopping malls...and striplights and software. The dark corners are being pushed back...a little more every day.We're things of the shadow, you and I...And there isn't as much shadow...as there used to be..
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Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.
