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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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.
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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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And man … no longer now He slays the lamb that looks him in the face, And horribly devours his mangled flesh.
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The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small cities across the US.
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Damn it's a shame you're the mighty queen of vials, With a wide-eyed look and a rotten-toothed smile. Used to walk with a swagger, now you simply stagger From one spot on, to the next spot on, to the next spot on, to the next.
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Aggression is not a breed thing. It's a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high. The idea is to get a dog in your same level or lower than you.
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Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.
