Nikolai Gogol Quotes
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
Nikolai Gogol
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
J. F. C. Fuller
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
Paris Hilton
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Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.
Faye Marsay
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
Idris Elba
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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I had some great experiences, but there were times when films didn't do well right, especially after 'Vicky Donor.'
Yami Gautam
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In this industry, you're so used to heartbreak because nine out of 10 times, you don't get what you want. But, that one out of 10 times, you do and it's just the best feeling in the world.
Josh Lawson
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
Gary Hume
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Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.
Darius Rucker
Hootie & the Blowfish
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I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.
Gaby Hoffmann
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Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
Nikolai Gogol