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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I don't particularly like L.A.
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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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You always gotta find a little bit of time for the girls, right?
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If you're blindly loyal to me, then you're just acting like a crony of mine. If you say you admire me because of the principles for which I stand, I understand that, but then you also have the right to call me to the carpet when you think I'm falling short.
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I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.
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Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
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I try to go unnoticed. I don't watch the news or read what they say. I try to stay on the sidelines.
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And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.
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Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
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Life has been given us to enjoy.
