Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.
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The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.
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I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.
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Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
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It’s very hard to prosper in this modern economy if you haven’t fully unleashed the potential of your people. And your people’s potential, in part, derives from their ability to express themselves and express new ideas, to try to right wrongs that are taking place in the society.
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Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle, on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair-holding his wrists like Lifar-and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.
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How I prayed just to get awayTo carry me anywhereSometimes the angels punish usBy answering our prayers - Carnies (2012)
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Maybe there is something I got from it. Maybe you also start to be clear on certain things.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.
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When America closes its doors, so does everybody else. We are the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.
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The West Coast is so different from the common perceptions of it.
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I love bringing the inanimate object to life.
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The problem, of course, is that the vacuum left by Younis Tsouli is quickly being filled by a larger, anonymous group of new cyber terrorists who are competing to follow in his legacy. He has become the inspiration for a second generation of "cyber terrorists" who are studying and learning from his mistakes.
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Division of labor is a justification for sloth.
