Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
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As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself.
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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I am very resourceful, as any woman would be.
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
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Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
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Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.
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The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
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Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.
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I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.
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Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.
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Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.
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I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.
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My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.
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Hate pollutes the mind.
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Entrepreneurs need to be reminded that it's not the job of their customers to know what they don't. In other words, your customers have a tough enough time doing their jobs. They don't spend time trying to reinvent their industries or how their jobs are performed.
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I think a lot of women would like to eat like a man, especially on a date. But they're probably afraid to. But a guy would love to see a woman with a healthy appetite. They love seeing women with a healthy appetite.
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
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It's not always about convincing your parents of what you want to do, but just saying, 'This is what I'm doing; this is what I love.'
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Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.
