Ivan Turgenev Quotes
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.
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People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.
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In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
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You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.
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I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.
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With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.
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I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.
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I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.
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I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.
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I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it. I believe Paul's got everything he ever had, but I lost a lot of mine.
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I speak 'with absolute certainty' only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any 'authority' let alone 'divine revelation'!
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We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?
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I am in love with my La Cornue custom-made stove - it's a dream to use and my favourite part of the kitchen.
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We ran him and he just couldn't run.
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Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.
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It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor. Coalition successes bear by the very nature of their origin the germ of future crumbling, in fact of the loss of what has already been achieved. Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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A lot of times people say, ‘You act like a grandmother, you’re just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.
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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
