Nikolai Leskov Quotes

To tell about him, one should be French, because only the people of that nation manage to explain to others what they don’t understand themselves.

Nikolai Leskov

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• Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.

  

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• Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

  

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• For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.

  

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• In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

  

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• The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

  

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• I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.

  

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• I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

  

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• I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.

  

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• I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

  

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• Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

  

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• I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

  

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• To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

  

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• All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

  

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• I believe in the gospel of Good Living. You cannot make any god happy by fasting. Let us have good food, and let us have it well cooked — and it is a thousand times better to know how to cook than it is to understand any theology in the world.

  

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• I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield' is a big book - is it epic? Amount of time covered, length, drama, or story - that's the real appeal - if the story is long you have a better chance of becoming more connected.

  

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• To tell about him, one should be French, because only the people of that nation manage to explain to others what they don’t understand themselves.

  

  Nikolai Leskov
  • Understand
  • Nation
  • Explain