Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• Human being
• Man Is
• Wasted Time

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• Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.

  

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• There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

  

  Dana Brunetti
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• I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.

  

  Pamela Anderson
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• My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• Life doesn't stop with football.

  

  Barry Sanders
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• People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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• I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.

  

  Barry Mann
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• I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

  

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• Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
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• I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Science
  • Never
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• I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Think
  • Said
  • Lying

• The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Think
  • Environment
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• There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Play

• I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Business
  • Happy
  • Successful

• When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Time
  • Home
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• I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Think
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• I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Despair
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• Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.

  

  Zach Braff
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• Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain those children that are crossing through our territory, who are coming from Central America.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Good
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  • America

• Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.

  

  David Dudley Field II
  • Government
  • Humans
  • Force

• The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • Mystery
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• The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Mystery
  • Final

• Relationships have always seemed very mysterious, and therefore worth exploring. I’m single, so it’s still kind of a mystery - a worthwhile mystery, one that I want to be on the scent of. I’m not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what’s on my bedside table rather than what’s in my bed.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Thinking
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• Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Mystery
  • Human being
  • Man Is