Anton Chekhov Quotes
'Grigory Petrovitch, let us weep, let us weep with joy!' he said in a thin voice, and then at once burst out laughing in a loud bass guffaw. 'Ho-ho-ho! This is a fine daughter-in-law for you too! Everything is in its place in her; all runs smoothly, no creaking, the mechanism works well, lots of screws in it.'
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I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
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Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
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You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.
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I guess music is very global.
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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!
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The name Jack was given by an American tourist.
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I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.
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The function of the lawyer is to preserve a sceptical relativism in a society hell-bent for absolutes. The worse the society, the more law there will be. In Hell there will be nothing but law and due process will be meticulously observed.
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There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
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One thinks of toys and play as an area of great novelty and potentiality where all sorts of responses can be developed. The fact that adults are allowing their imaginations to have activity through toy kinds of objects is a further reflection of the belief in the imagination of the adult mind.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
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'Grigory Petrovitch, let us weep, let us weep with joy!' he said in a thin voice, and then at once burst out laughing in a loud bass guffaw. 'Ho-ho-ho! This is a fine daughter-in-law for you too! Everything is in its place in her; all runs smoothly, no creaking, the mechanism works well, lots of screws in it.'
