Elizabeth Kostova Quotes
Life’s better, sounder, when we don’t brood unnecessarily on horrors. As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.
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Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.
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When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
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The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.
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I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
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You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.
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The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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it was the period I think of as the age of the pillow.. .What I wanted to bring out - is that which cannot be measured - I wanted to bring out the tired movement in the eyelids - the lips must look as though they are whispering - she must look as though she is breathing - I want life - what is alive. on his painting 'The sick Child'
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Bands are actively seeking more film involvement - because the days of recording albums and MTV and even touring, to some extent, are gone.
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Life’s better, sounder, when we don’t brood unnecessarily on horrors. As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.
