Nikolai Gogol Quotes
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
Quotes to Explore
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
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I look up to the older generation of men - Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn - but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He's brilliant, very political, quite eccentric.
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The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
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Dancing well is the best revenge.
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As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
