Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I hate having my picture taken.
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The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
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Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
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I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.
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I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
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In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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Fashion is what people tell you to wear. Style is what comes from your own inner thing.
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I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
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Obviously when you're a teen you have no money, so you make, like, three outfits out of one dress. You're like, 'OK cut the arms here. Alright: New party, cut them to here.'
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I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.
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I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
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The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience.
