Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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Judge: Do you want Mr. Bryan sworn?
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How many reality shows can you watch? They're so obviously phony.
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My priorities were taking the kids to school and being a mum and being a daughter and being a sister. Just spending a lot of that time with my family that I'd probably lost a lot of, touring with the Cranberries.
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But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.
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Facebook is who you used to know; Twitter is who you want to know and things you want to know more about.
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I always approach every play based on the cast. When Denzel and I did 'Fences,' I didn't go to rehearsals and say, 'OK, James Earl Jones did a wonderful job in '87. Let me see if you can come close to James Earl Jones.'
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I find it is increasingly difficult to spend the time I need with my family and at the same time do the job that needs to be done.
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I'm never going to say anything about who I'm dating unless I'm married or engaged.
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Specialization in this world is rudimentary and self-sufficiency characterizes most individual households
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I wouldn't call the Prime Minister gutless. That's all that's left of him.
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There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.
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A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.
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More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
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The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.
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You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat? I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.
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I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
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Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.
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Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.
