Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
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I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.
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It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.
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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
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I did some research on cryonics and cryogenics, but I kept it to a minimum because I didn't want the science part of the novel to overshadow the fiction. Being medically accurate wasn't my main goal.
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Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.
