Alexander Chee Quotes
By the 1880s, English translations of both the French and the Russian editions were available, and Americans began to read 'War and Peace.'Alexander Chee
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
Viggo Mortensen -
I don't like possessions.
Daniel Barenboim -
It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
Karen Kain -
I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
Karen Handel -
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
A. R. Ammons -
As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
Patrick J. Kennedy
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
Fat Joe -
The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
Washed Out -
I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
Jack Ma -
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
Mamata Banerjee -
One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
J. Cole
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
Laura Mvula -
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
Abba Eban -
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
Yann Martel -
There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
Halle Berry -
When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.
Sally Phillips -
Don't forget I'm from a military family. I was in special training in the army. I am tall, sporty and - how do you say - you can always protect yourself... I have very strong security.
Oleg Deripaska
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Composers are always going back to the past.
Anne Dudley -
But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.
Ulrich Beck -
One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
C. Wright Mills -
The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.
Carl von Clausewitz -
I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized a nuclear war would be a hard thing to clean up after.
P. J. O'Rourke -
By the 1880s, English translations of both the French and the Russian editions were available, and Americans began to read 'War and Peace.'
Alexander Chee