Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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Culture follows power.
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The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.
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I am a daddy's girl at heart, even though I'm in my 30s.
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The world is changing very profoundly.
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My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.'
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… there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things…
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I would, in a sense, certainly assist the Amir of Afghanistan if he waged war against the British Government. That is to say, I would openly tell my countrymen that it would be a crime to help a government which had lost the confidence of the nation to remain in power.
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Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest.
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Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.
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My mother came to a Smashing Pumpkins gig once, and I was wearing a dress. She was very upset. She said, 'Everyone's gonna think you're a fag.' I said,'Well, they already think I'm an asshole.'
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Fashion moves so quickly that, unless you have a strong point of view, you can lose integrity.
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An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despairs over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair.
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In high school I spent most of my time in jeans and T-shirts or Juicy sweats. We're such a laid-back town. I mean, people wore bikinis under their clothes half the time, so you didn't really get dressed up to go to school.
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Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
