Alexander Volkov Quotes
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up - I didn't have an agent or anything. It was for 'Chicago.' There were probably three hundred people there.
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I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.
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I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.
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In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.
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All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.
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As my poor father used to sayIn 1863,Once people start on all this ArtGoodbye, moralitee!
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I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song, 'Hallelujah'.
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I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.
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It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
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Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
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I'm really calculating when it comes to these scripts - I'm really calculated about character behavior and dialogue.
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What I hear a lot is that fresh, healthy eating isn't accessible. That it's full of bizarre ingredients people have never heard of that are really expensive. There's also a perception that it's time consuming and not very filling.
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Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
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The Christians committed all sorts of atrocities on the Jews by giving them the label "Killers of Christ". Hitler is not an exception but a culmination of the 2000-year long oppression of the Jews by the Christians
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The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the "real" living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.
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Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
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Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.
