Leo Tolstoy Quotes
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.Leo Tolstoy
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
I'm very self-critical.
Manolo Blahnik -
I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
Zachary Quinto -
If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
Walter Smith -
Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
J. R. Smith -
I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
Larry Hagman
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
Dalton McGuinty -
It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.
Patrick Kane -
I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
Karen Salmansohn -
Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
D. J. Cotrona -
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant -
The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
Taylor Swift
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
Laila Ali -
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel Alexander -
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston Bachelard -
I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
Valeria Golino
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No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
Peter Tork The Monkees -
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Flannery O'Connor -
Acting is a trial-and-error business. Every actor has a few movies on their resume that they're not terribly proud of, but that's how you learn.
Chris Evans -
In my opinion, gentrification can sometimes affect what's happening on the ends. You're placing people in different places, moving them around, and you're taking them out of their comfort zone and into places they're not used to being in.
Asher D -
Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.
Stephen Greenblatt -
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
Leo Tolstoy