Leo Tolstoy Quotes
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.
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Battles are won in the hearts of men.
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
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The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously, I knew that if I was to spend however long it would take to write this book with him, this man would have to be someone I'd like to have dinner with.
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'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.
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I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.
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I've always had a strong interest in how food is produced and in knowing where it comes from.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
