Anna Akhmatova Quotes
That was a time when only the dead could smile, delivered from their wars, and the sign, the soul, of Leningrad dangled outside its prison-house...
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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The man did not move because only immobility could hurt more than motion: the man held himself still because to move might lessen his suffering, and that he could not bear. For him only pain had meaning.
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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My fondest memory of Tupac is my father producing 'Toss It Up' for him when I was 7 years old and hearing that.
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I am completely obsessed with numbers and data. I have become a scientist in later life.
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I really like light-hearted and humourous people.
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That was a time when only the dead could smile, delivered from their wars, and the sign, the soul, of Leningrad dangled outside its prison-house...
