Boris Pasternak Quotes

If it is so painful to love and to be charged with this electric current, how much more painful must it be to a woman and to be the current, and to inspire love.

Boris Pasternak

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• I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

  

  Fidel Castro
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  • Sermon

• If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Genius
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  • Wait

• Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
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  • Quiet

• The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
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• I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Me
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• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
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• I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Women
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• If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • You
  • Energy
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• There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.

  

  Vic Mignogna
  • Business
  • Question
  • Door

• My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Child

• I love women.

  

  Maluma
  • Women
  • Love
  • I Love

• I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.

  

  Harish Rawat
  • Wave
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  • Virtually

• You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Think
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• My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.

  

  J. Cole
  • Fans
  • Beats
  • Rhymes

• I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • People
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• Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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• I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Work
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• Sometimes I wake up and think I look horrible. And sometimes I see a strong woman.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Woman

• Time discovers truth.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Time
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• The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Up
  • Art
  • Experience

• The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already. This was a screwed-up place he'd just come into. But he didn't have to know that. Not yet, anyway. There in that room, where it was hot and cramped, the world probably still seemed small enough to manage.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Enough
  • Sorry

• If it's Saturday night, and you're sitting on your couch watching 'Showtime at the Apollo,' then you're not a man's man.

  

  Frank Vincent
  • Night
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• This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.

  

  Marie Windsor

• If it is so painful to love and to be charged with this electric current, how much more painful must it be to a woman and to be the current, and to inspire love.

  

  Boris Pasternak