Anton Chekhov Quotes
If you can’t distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn’t undertake philanthropic work.Anton Chekhov
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
J. B. Smoove -
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
Major Taylor -
I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
J. Cole -
In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
Narendra Modi -
All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
Gary Johnson
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
Abraham Verghese -
I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
Narendra Modi -
We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
T-Pain -
I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
Ian MacKaye -
I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
Imogen Heap -
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
Adam McKay
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
Malcolm Gets -
Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
Carlene Carter -
The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
Rain -
I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
Natasha Richardson -
Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
Daniel Clowes -
When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
LaToya Jackson
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So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn't complain. It was normal.
Bernhard Langer -
If people are coming to 'Hamilton' to leave their politics behind, you came to the wrong show.
Brandon Victor Dixon -
I used to be a professional kiteboarder. People were like, 'Oh, my God, are you scared of sharks? Are you scared of injuries?' You can't be scared. If you're scared, then you can't do it. You can't train to be the best.
Maika Monroe -
Bernie Mac don't sugarcoat.
Bernie Mac -
It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
If you can’t distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn’t undertake philanthropic work.
Anton Chekhov