Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.
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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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All of that is constantly operating when you not only learn, but when you recall. But as you recall in a different light, the weights with which something is more probably going to be or not recalled on the next instance, are going to be changed. So you're constantly changing the way, for instance, synapses are going to fire very easily or not so easily.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each other’s washing.
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A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
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Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.
