Anna Akhmatova Quotes
That woman I once was, in a black agate necklace, I do not wish to meet again till the Day of Judgement.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I love New York. Love it.
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You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
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Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
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I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
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The first principle of cosmology must be 'There is nothing outside the universe'. This is not to exclude religion or mysticism... But if it is knowledge that we desire... we need to seek answers to questions about the things we can see... only things that exist in the universe.
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.
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You can get stuck in the trap of reading your YouTube comments all the time. Sometimes I regret it. Not everyone is going to love you. And for some reason, stand-up has this thing where everyone thinks they can do it. So everyone thinks they're an expert.
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I think the American legal system sucks worse than a Celine Dion cover version of 'Whole Lotta Love.'
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When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you
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That woman I once was, in a black agate necklace, I do not wish to meet again till the Day of Judgement.
