Anton Chekhov Quotes
You are right to demand that an artist engage his work consciously, but you confuse two different things: solving the problem and correctly posing the question.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
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99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good vibes.
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
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I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'
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You are right to demand that an artist engage his work consciously, but you confuse two different things: solving the problem and correctly posing the question.
