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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Imagination without reason produces impossible monsters; with reason, it becomes the mother of the arts, and the source of its marvels.
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A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God.
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I studied physics 12 in summer school after I completed grade 12. Did I enjoy it initially? No, I had found physics difficult since grade 11, and I struggled a lot. Did I learn from it? Yes, and as I improved, I started enjoying it more.
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Life has been given us to enjoy.
