Nikolay Davydenko Quotes
Wimbledon is the world's most boring tournament. There's hardly anything to do apart from tennis. You constantly find yourself yawning - there's no entertainment here.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
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The professor was a bore on a Guggenheim, a long-range drone, and international ballistic fossil. I spent the whole hour drawing little pictures of hanged men.
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I hope life treats you kind And I hope you have all you've dreamed of. And I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love.
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Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
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Christianity, as it had played out over the past two millennia, meant power disguised as principle, guilt imposed on the susceptible, irrationality run amok, and the suppression of free inquiry. It meant hypocrisy and self-righteousness, dogmatism, and superstition. It meant monks flogging themselves and soldiers wearing crosses and the auto-da-fe of the Inquisition.
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Kids today are so intelligent and computer savvy, so pairing an interactive computer world with something cuddly seems like a natural fit.
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Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.
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Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.
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Wimbledon is the world's most boring tournament. There's hardly anything to do apart from tennis. You constantly find yourself yawning - there's no entertainment here.
