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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PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.
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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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No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.
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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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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
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I'm instinctively cautious because I'm an academic.
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The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.
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Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.
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Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.
