Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
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I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it’s possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It’s very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.
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I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question to answer because I'd been working on another novel for years and when I gave up on that, this one came very easily. But I think the work had been going on a lot longer than the actual writing.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
