Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.
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'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
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Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.
