Maxim Gorky Quotes
You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
Quotes to Explore
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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I used to shop in ASDA all the time. Every now and then I still go in to get a little salad for lunch.
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Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.
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Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
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Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.
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I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
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Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.
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I like doing business in a black city.
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Normally, it's one or the other - a pretty, straight woman or a more charactery woman who isn't supposed to be attractive. But women like Tina Fey are leading the charge on being both. You can be funny and attractive.
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It's the messiness of life that ultimately leads you to the most interesting things. Everyone asks what you would do over, and I don't know because then you have this story to tell, and if you did everything over and made it perfect, what would you talk about?
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When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.
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The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.
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People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
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'John Henry Days' was already half in the can before my first book came out, so I'd already started something that was big and sprawling - I just had to finish it.
Colson Whitehead -
When they court announcers say, 'This is the world No. 2,' it just doesn't sound right to me because either I'm No. 1 or I'm a grand slam champion. I'm not world No. 2. I just don't like the ring of it when I'm introduced on court because I've been up there for so, so long.
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You can't develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.
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Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and culture-bound, not only in the past but in the present too. The people who took their lives, the paths which led them to that end, and the experience of dying in this way were deeply influenced by specific historical circumstances. Only by making a greater effort at historical understanding can this most secret house of death be made to yield up more of its confidences.
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You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
