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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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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I feel - as I'm edging to my thirties, I feel like a stronger person and a more confident person.
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There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.
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I'm a big kid. I love drinking chocolate milk. I'm not afraid to watch some cartoons once in a while when I'm with my nieces and actually be attentive.
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My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.
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I was this young boy and I saw this man with his hands round my sister's neck, I was just standing there with her two children beside me... Everything I've done since then was for the purpose of making women look stronger, not naïve. And so, when everyone started saying I was a misogynist, that really freaked me out. They didn't know me. They didn't know what I had seen in my life. That was the first part of fashion that I hated - people labeling me without knowing me.
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There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.
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Life has been given us to enjoy.
