Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Six feet of land was all that he needed.

Leo Tolstoy

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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.

  

  Larry David
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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.

  

  L. Neil Smith
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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.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
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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.

  

  Odeya Rush
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• Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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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.

  

  Camilla Luddington
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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.

  

  Lara Stone
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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.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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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.

  

  Kajol
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• For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.

  

  Manuel Moroun
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• How do you open up? I didn't know how to.

  

  Yolandi Visser
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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.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
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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.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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• To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.

  

  John Darnielle
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• All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - 'Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.'

  

  Archibald Alexander
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• It's bizarre, that feeling as an actor, at being in the mecca of the film world and seeing billboards for a TV show that you're in pretty much everywhere.

  

  Joe Dempsie
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• At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can 'see' things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
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• Poetry is, above all, a singing art of natural and magical connection because, though it is born out of one's person's solitude, it has the ability to reach out and touch in a humane and warmly illuminating way the solitude, even the loneliness, of others. That is why, to me, poetry is one of the most vital treasures that humanity possesses; it is a bridge between separated souls.

  

  Brendan Kennelly
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• Six feet of land was all that he needed.

  

  Leo Tolstoy