Nikolai Gogol Quotes
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
Nikolai Gogol
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
Abby Elliott
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
Gary Numan
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Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.
Sadie Jones
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
Feist
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For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Aristotle
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There were 100 intellectual reasons not to pursue 'Wicked.' There were times where it was very challenging, where the mind said, 'This is maybe too challenging,' but the heart willed it. The heart willed it to succeed.
Marc Platt
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Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.
Keanu Reeves
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As captain, I must always be an example to my team-mates. I'm calm and I don't have any problem with the coach or with the club. My only goal is to be ready whenever I have the opportunity to play.
Alessandro Del Piero
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A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely
Roger Jon Ellory
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I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
Allan Sherman
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At 5 years old, I saw 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and I was so scared when Costello sat himself down in the lap of the monster, not realizing where he was. My friends teased me. They were older, 8 years old. And my goal was to become a mad scientist and get back at them. And here I am, mad as hell!
Leonard Susskind
