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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'Finnegans Wake,' 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' live on my bedside table back home in London.
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Twitter makes me feel like I have friends all over.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. (Terullian) When she ceases to bleed, she ceases to bless. She can thrive through persecution, but never through peace and plenty.
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If you don't make the commitment today to start becoming the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you really want, what makes you think that tomorrow - or next week, or next month, or next year - is going to be any different? They won't. And that's why you must draw your line in the sand TODAY.
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Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.
