Anton Chekhov Quotes
Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.
Quotes to Explore
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
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Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.
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Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.
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I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
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I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!
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Most adults have some childlike fascination for making and arranging larger structures out of smaller ones.
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Votorantim is attentive to opportunities that arise in both domestic and international markets to expand its businesses.
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I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
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Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.
