Alexander Volkov Quotes
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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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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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It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists.
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The best scientific evidence suggests temperatures are rising, and the best scientific evidence suggests man-made anthropogenic carbon emissions have some substantial thing to do with that. However, does that mean the trend will continue forever? We don't know.
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When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type of political art that was very didactic and based on the '60s, and a social collective.
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Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.
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We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.