Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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Is it crazy to say that I don't often eat breakfast? But every time I go to a diner, I have to have a breakfast-type item, even if it's 11:30 at night. I love my morning eats!
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.
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I want my outfit to match my mood.
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I think there are a few brands like Nike and Patagonia which are quite progressively minded.
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Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
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I love my job and my relationship with the viewers who watch my shows.
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I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.
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A loafer never works except when there's a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
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If India is computer, Congress is its default program.
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We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.
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..the elimination of other things which are not essential will make for a stronger result.
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Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation. That is what we have not taught young people, or older ones for that matter. You do not finally win a state of freedom that is protected forever. It doesn't work that way.
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Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story begins in opposition to its ending. That means you work out how it finishes first, and then begin the story as far away from that point - in terms of character development - as you can.
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I got my degree in rhetoric.
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The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.
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Most books are three-thirds rubbish.
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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
