Leo Tolstoy Quotes
It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.Leo Tolstoy
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
Garth Nix -
People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
Salman Rushdie -
It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
Aaron Sorkin -
People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
Camilla Lackberg -
I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
Tadao Ando -
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
Bashar al-Assad
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
Patricia McBride -
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
Rafael Vinoly -
All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
Naveen Jain -
I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
Folorunsho Alakija -
The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
Adam Baldwin -
To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
Yoko Ono
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I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.
Yuna -
People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
Karin Slaughter -
Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
Dan Gable -
I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
Daniel Boulud -
Fame creeps up on you.
Ian Mckellen -
I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.
Eddie Murphy
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
Harold Ramis -
There is always frustration from people who work in schools that things keep changing but it is an unfortunate truth with the world of work changing as rapidly as it is, we do have to change.
Jim Knight -
When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person.
Michael Feldman -
I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.
Ian Mckellen -
In 1962, when I was 19, I visited India. With introductions from people involved in the U.S. civil rights movement, I was able to visit with several of the leading Gandhians there. The hundred-to-one difference in average per capita income between America and India at the time was a stark reality for the people who became my friends there.
Bill Drayton -
It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.
Leo Tolstoy