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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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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To be a Latin Lover a man, above all, has to be a great fucker - he has to be infallible and I'm not that. I often foul it up.
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If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
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We end up putting so much attention onto our image that we remain in a continuous state of protecting or improving our image in order to control how others see us.
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The most effective tool I have to work with artists I admire is to point to other artists that I admire and show that I've worked with them many, many times. It's not because I have option deals; it's because they want to keep working with us.
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Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.
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I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.
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You're always starting with a nugget of truth, whether it's a song or an improv scene.
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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.
