Anton Chekhov Quotes
A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
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Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
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My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.
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For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.
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I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
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When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
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Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.
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It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.
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We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is a numerical infinity. But we know not of what kind; it is untrue that it is even, untrue that it is odd; for the addition of a unit does not change its nature; yet it is a number, and every number is odd or even (this certainly holds of every finite number). Thus we may quite well know that there is a God without knowing what He is.
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When I first started singing, I didn't know which direction to take - I sang rock & roll and all kinds of things.
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Never stay with friends or relatives. You end up living on their schedules.
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When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.
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A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
