Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
Ian Anderson -
When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
Karl Ove Knausgaard -
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken -
The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
Lamar Alexander -
Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
Maceo Parker
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
What matters most is the win.
Canelo Alvarez -
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
Zane Grey -
I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
Uzo Aduba -
When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.
Zendaya -
The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
Rachel Cusk
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I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.
Naomie Harris -
I'm a historian in my own mind.
Quentin Tarantino -
Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
Tavi Gevinson -
The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
Daniel Bryan -
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
Ian Mckellen
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There'd be days in high school where I thought I played well, my team got the win, and I'd go to the gym still in my uniform, and my dad would say, 'C'mon, let's go. We have more work to do.'
Jalen Brunson -
As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past and amazing things that they've done, I came across a book about Howard Hughes and he was set up as basically, the most multi-dimensional character I could ever come across. Often, people have tried to define him in biographies, but no one seems to be able to categorize him.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
Alan Rickman -
Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it.
David Chang -
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Oscar Wilde -
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.
Fyodor Dostoevsky