Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?
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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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
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You have to constantly redefine who you are.
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My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.
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I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'
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When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
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My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
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Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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I have found that what drives me is the desire to prove, to myself and to my peers, that I can do what I set out to do and build something that matters.
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I draw whatever hits me.
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For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?
