Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes
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I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
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I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.
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I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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I'd never hurt another person.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.
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The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.
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Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.
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The U.S. government places considerable trust in those given access to classified information, and we are committed to prosecuting those who abuse that trust.
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I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.
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We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
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Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.
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He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
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Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.
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There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented.
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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution. I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don't think it explains individual species evolution at all well.
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Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have three dimensions. ... The mathematical quaternion partakes of both these elements; in technical language it may be said to be 'time plus space', or 'space plus time': and in this sense it has, or at least involves a reference to, four dimensions. And how the One of Time, of Space the Three, Might in the Chain of Symbols girdled be.
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But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the who is loved.
