Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
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Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
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There's a vacancy, won't you come to me And fill my empty spaces I'm a motel man in a promised land That's filled with empty faces So won't you bring your sorrows bring your dreams, It's a place for you to be There's no more tomorrow or that's how it seems Won't you come to me? I've got a vacancy...
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I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.
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Jesus removes all that is superfluous & unclean from our prayers, & adds His perfection, beauty & fragrance to them!
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One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.
