Anton Chekhov Quotes

Ah, but ignorance is better. At least then there's hope.

Anton Chekhov

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• In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • American
  • Die

• I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Book

• There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Digital

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Know
  • Film
  • Nostalgia

• I believe in forgiveness.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Believe
  • Forgiveness

• A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Never
  • Boat
  • Dare

• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Stop
  • Athlete
  • Gym

• I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Real
  • Job
  • Got

• 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.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Women
  • History
  • Vote

• I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • World
  • Music
  • Rock

• My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Myself
  • Hair
  • Personality

• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Moral

• Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Movie
  • Day
  • Cat

• Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Help
  • Effort

• The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Real
  • Beauty
  • Italian

• To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Picture
  • Honest

• The other day I got a text from a boy, but it wasn't hot. I mean, if you're going to text me every day, you haven't seen me for months and you're trying to seduce me, you'd better spice up that text and make it more exciting than 'How was your day? I hope you're having a beautiful one.' Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

  

  Chloe Sevigny
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Hope

• I have been asked to direct many times and usually said no.

  

  Chevy Chase

• To me, there is nothing like the excitement and unique experience of a live orchestra playing.

  

  Carmine Coppola
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Unique

• Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers.

  

  Karen Barad
  • Matter
  • Remembers
  • Converses

• Ah, but ignorance is better. At least then there's hope.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Hope
  • Ignorance