Nikolai Leskov Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.
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Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.
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Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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There is no way of being almost funny or mildly funny or fairly funny or tolerably funny. You are either funny or not funny and there is nothing in between. And usually it is the writer who thinks he is funny and the reader who thinks he isn't.
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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The arts are suffering amongst public schools, but also, minority theater companies are struggling, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression through the arts.
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A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.
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'Fright Night' I can just about deal with. Because the original is such a 1980s extravaganza. Which is a good thing. Obviously. But something like 'The Others' or anything psychological: I'm no good with that. I don't like it when there's space for me to use my imagination.
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The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.
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One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.
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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
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Life has been given us to enjoy.
