Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I do not favor the gag order.
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.
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I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.
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I can have an androgynous quality.
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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
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I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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How do you open up? I didn't know how to.
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I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.
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It is a favourite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future,
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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
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It's amazing how good getting up and moving makes you feel.
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Six feet of land was all that he needed.
