Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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• I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Single
  • Difficult
  • Stress

• They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Song

• I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Best
  • Actor
  • Everyone

• Good design should be honest.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Good
  • Design
  • Honest

• Life is a dead-end street.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Street
  • Life Is A

• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Small
  • Best
  • Photography

• Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• I'm ready for a different America.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Different
  • America
  • Ready

• I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • House
  • Week
  • Down

• That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!

  

  Randy West
  • Energy
  • Joy
  • Never

• From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Power
  • Same
  • Differences

• I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Game
  • Respect
  • Fame

• There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Men
  • Women
  • Support

• I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Personal

• I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • God
  • Believing
  • Deity

• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Nature
  • Question

• I had no idea at all how to model, but people would start to follow me. So, I would go to these start-up companies and say, 'I have all these followers... how can we work together?'

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Success
  • Lucky
  • Deserve

• And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

  

  Friedrich Schleiermacher
  • Art

• She then gave her a pair of slippers made of glass, the prettiest in the world.

  

  Charles Perrault
  • World
  • She

• I wrote a pilot for myself. It's about a Latina actress trying to make it in Hollywood. It's pretty funny.

  

  Melonie Diaz
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this.

  

  Montel Williams
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Walking

• I guess when I first started writing music, I really had no idea if anyone was ever going to hear what I was writing and almost no intention of people hearing it. So, it was kind of this journal. It was pretty unfiltered.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn