Ivan Turgenev Quotes
There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's calmly to turn away from everything, to say, "Enough!" and, folding one's useless arms across one's empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing one's own insignificance.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
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It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
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I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
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I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.
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I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.
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A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.
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Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.
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We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.
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You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.
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Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.
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Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.
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There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.
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It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.
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To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
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[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.
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The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.
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There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's calmly to turn away from everything, to say, "Enough!" and, folding one's useless arms across one's empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing one's own insignificance.
