Anton Chekhov Quotes
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.
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You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.
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It is a sad place, young man, for you to put your young life into. It is to me far more like a graveyard than like a camp for the living. Look at it! It is billowed all over with the graves of dead issues, of buried opinions, of exploded theories, of disgraced doctrines.
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The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in.
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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
