Anton Chekhov Quotes
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When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.
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I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.
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Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
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I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.
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In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men’s behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction
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Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.
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Bill Clinton valued my opinion and always made sure that my views were heard, and people knew that he wanted me to talk.
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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
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A man who doesn’t drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.
