Alexander Kotov Quotes
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.
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What is the basic principle of democracy? In the end, it is loyalty to the nation. We Central Europeans know from historical experience that sooner or later, we will lose our freedom if we do not represent the interests of our citizens.
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But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
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I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
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Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
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I am not called Cugel the Clever for nothing.
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I've never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by hope.
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Sometimes they seem like living shapes, - The people of the sky, - Guests in white raiment coming down From heaven, which is close by; I call them by familiar names, As one by one draws nigh.
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The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
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Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.
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I am most attached to my mother, who always travels with me when I am on an outdoor location or abroad. She is my friend, who I share everything with.
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New media's not very old, hence the word new, so we don't know a lot of things about new media and by the time you've taught it it's probably out of date. I think it's much more beneficial to have an experiential lesson versus a classroom lesson in new media.
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Time trouble is blunder time.
