Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes
He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
Park Chan-wook
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
Mae Jemison
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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
Adam D'Angelo
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
Sachin Tendulkar
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
Tamara Tunie
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I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.
Tammy Duckworth
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Generally, I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or inspires viewers in some way.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Shakespeare is universal.
Harold Bloom
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You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.
Patrick Stewart
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For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.
Pablo Picasso
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For the sophisticated falsificationist a scientific theory T is falsified if and only if another theory T' has been proposed with the following characteristics :
Imre Lakatos
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A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.
Ada Lovelace
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
Alexander Cockburn
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I do wanna get married. It just sounds great. You get to go grocery shopping together, rent videos, and the kissing and the hugging and the kissing and the hugging under the cozy covers. Mmmm! But sometimes I worry that I don't wanna get married as much as I want to get dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough. That might feel pretty good, too.
Maria Bamford
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And so one becomes, or I become, anyway, slightly obsessive, particularly about my health, because you wouldn't want to read the letters people write when you're off and they're disappointed - it's so awful, the guilt one feels for not being there.
Elaine Paige
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A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
Ben Lovett
Mumford & Sons
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It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.
Drew Barrymore
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Mendelssohn is the inventor of religious kitsch in music. His first essay in this genre is a masterpiece, the Fugue in E Minor, published in 1837 but written ten years earlier, when the composer was eighteen ...
Charles Rosen
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Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who's ever run frankly.
Madeleine Albright
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If I was one of the leaders...if I was just a leader of one of these studios what I would do is I would go to all my cohorts who run other studios and say let's make a deal. Let's each of us make three 3D movies a year or whatever the number is. Let's not take every movie and make it a 3D movie. Let's take our three tentpoles or whatever movie it is so you have a specialness to it.
Neal H. Moritz
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I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn't clever enough at Maths O-level to get onto the cookery teaching course I really wanted to do, so I did a catering course instead.
Mary Berry
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He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia.
Mikhail Bulgakov
