Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
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A belief may be larger than a fact.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
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You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.
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Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
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Apocalyptic hysteria is much more effective at getting people to open their wallets than reasonable commentary.
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People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric intake has not fallen, if they are really shoveling in the steak, they don't lose weight.
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My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.
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When I am with you, everything is prayer.
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He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart.
