Leo Tolstoy Quotes
All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the 'bowl of stew' of bodily satisfactions.
Quotes to Explore
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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Never regret what you don't write.
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I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.
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We are protecting Europe according to European rules that say borders can be crossed only in certain areas in a controlled way and after registration.
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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
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It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.
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Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.
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My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.
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I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
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Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
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When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.
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'Where the hell is Ronan?' Gansey asked, echoing the words that thousands of humans had uttered since mankind developed speech.
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Once you have the gallows, you’ll find new reasons to hang people from it.
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When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.
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The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam.
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New Orleans in an amazing town.
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I am a small-town girl.
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Much more definitive and much more lasting than all the gold that one can accumulate is the gratitude of a people.
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Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.
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The ocean twitched like a vast cloth spread over snakes.
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"Authenticity" doesn't mean much to me. I just want "good", in the sense of well-designed, well-constructed, long-lasting garments. My interest in military clothing stems from that. It's not about macho, playing soldiers, anything militaristic. It's the functionality, the design-solutions, the durability. Likewise workwear.
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All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the 'bowl of stew' of bodily satisfactions.
