Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.
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It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions derived from anywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing figure, from a spider’s web. This is a spider's web. This is why one must not make a distinction between things. For them there are no aristocratic quarterings. One must take things where one finds them.
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A notable scheme has occurred to me.
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This is it no more fun the death of all joy has come.
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So enough with the bigotry and bombast. Donald Trump's not offering real change. He's offering empty promises.
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Ἀψυχίᾳ γὰρ γλῶσσαν ἁρπάζει φόβος.
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Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.
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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
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Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.
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The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.
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What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field.
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You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?
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I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.
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I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.
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There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across from you is Taraji Penda Henson, you are being treated to a master class in the art of the hustle.
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My fashion resolution for 2015 is to continue to be inspired by all of the great designers of the past and present while keeping true to my style and myself.
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Touch makes it possible to live in a body that can move in response to being moved.
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The true fans were capable of not only painting their cars and homes their team colors, but also naming family pets and offspring after famous NFL all-stars.
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Even if actors ask for more money, will producers fulfill their demands? They might just show us the door.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
