Boris Pasternak Quotes
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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I love parties. I love a good time.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
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Unilateralism, as we have painfully seen in Iraq, is its own reward. Going it alone may satisfy a political instinct but it is dangerous to our military, even without their Commander in Chief taunting terrorists to 'bring it on.'
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.
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When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
