Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.
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Every morning you get the chance to begin again.
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Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again.
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By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
