Anton Chekhov Quotes
By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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'Fight Master' is a proving ground for young, aspiring fighters who want a chance to play on a bigger stage. That's something it has in common with 'The Ultimate Fighter,' which has always been like a farm league for the UFC, a place to develop new talent.
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I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
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None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.
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New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.
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Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
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The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.
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Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.
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I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.
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The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.
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In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters.
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I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
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The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.
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If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!
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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.
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Αἰθίοπές τε <θεοὺς σφετέρους> σιμοὺς μέλανάς τεΘρῇκἐς τε γλαυκοὺς καὶ πυρρούς <φασι πέλεσθαι>.
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Anne Carson and Angela Carter are folks I hold close to my heart because they have such unique ways of telling stories.
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Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don't know at all can just be like, 'Oh my God - are you Billie?'
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Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.
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How wonderful it would be if we humans with illnesses could simply go dormant while the scientific world went about its snail-paced research, and wake only when new, safe medical treatments were available.
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By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.
