Leo Tolstoy Quotes
The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life, what is seen as good and evil. Good and evil are defined by religions.Leo Tolstoy
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Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
N. Murray Edwards -
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
Barack Obama -
I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
Gautam Gambhir -
I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
Venus Williams -
Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
Iain Duncan Smith -
At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
Iggy Pop
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
Ian Mckellen -
We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
Victor Ponta -
My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
Sam Abell -
I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
Ursula Burns -
Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
Barry Eisler -
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Florence King
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
Barbara Bush -
Pilates is great.
Orlando Bloom -
If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.
Beck -
What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
Rand Paul -
People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.
Karen Traviss -
I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
Rakul Preet Singh
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
Keith Henson -
I will always wear what I want and have some fun doing it. I'm not afraid to take risks with my appearance. I'm not so vain.
Alex Kingston -
If I don't fall in love with my characters, I cannot shoot.
Bernardo Bertolucci -
I build engines and attach wheels to them.
Enzo Ferrari -
The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life, what is seen as good and evil. Good and evil are defined by religions.
Leo Tolstoy