Nikolai Gogol Quotes
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.
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Looking at the other person’s point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation.
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Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating aspect of that. I've always been a control freak, I've always felt that if I try hard enough, everyone I love will be kept safe and everything will be okay. Being shown, in such brutal terms, that that's simply not the way it works, in someways, it messed me up. I've been through hell, but on another level, if you pile up so much tragedy, it either destroys you, or you just start laughing about it. Because at the end of the day, no one gets out alive.
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If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.
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At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war.
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You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.
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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
