Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get blindsided sometimes because I forget that that's a thing.
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When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's kind of like when I'm with my girlfriend.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.
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Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
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Μνήμην ἁπάντων, μουσομήτορ' ἐργάνην.
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Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
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Creating chaos provides excitement for some people, especially those who are uneasy with silence, those who distract themselves from their own problems by focusing outward, those who feel empty inside and need to fill themselves up with activity, and those who were raised in an environment in which harmony and peace were unknown.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.
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How do you project a character if you don't have a sense of where she is from? I've always just gotten on a plane to go to the area to get a sense of what it is like, to smell it, feel the earth, hear people talk, go to the marketplaces.
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To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.
