Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.
Quotes to Explore
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
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Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'
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Every day, I kind of have in my brain a few slots of what I want to do. Like school, sleep, homework, 'Rookie,' hanging out with friends, mindless relaxation time, and then trying to do my own creative things.
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In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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Choir of Men: O botheration take you all! How you cajole and flatter. A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell: (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
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You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.
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A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.
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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.
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What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.
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I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.
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The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
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It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.
