Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.
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Im just the highest energy person I know, and its really weird.
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I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.
