Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female, you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made a least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.
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A lot of straight and transgender boys get in touch with me through my website and social media. They tell me I'm inspirational and beautiful. It boosts my self-esteem.
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I run four miles most days, at about 8:00 to 8:15 pace. It's totally relaxed.
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I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.
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Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.
