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.
B. D. Wong
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
Frances McDormand
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
Fisher Ames
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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.
Ban Ki-moon
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
Imelda Staunton
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I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
Tabatha Coffey
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
Karel Reisz
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
Radha Mitchell
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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.
Natalie Massenet
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
Yoko Ono
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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.
Eric Lynn Wright
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I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
Gaby Hoffmann
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Vincent Bugliosi
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Lars von Trier
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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.
Warren Ellis
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After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
Karen Armstrong
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I don't think it's safe to allow anybody from the Middle East into this country.
Carlos Beruff
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Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.
Pierre Loti
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Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.
William Blake
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Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
John Heywood
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Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.
Fyodor Dostoevsky