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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I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud.
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So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure and certain path to peace. We must uphold and proclaim this conviction without cease, whatever coldly knowing smiles or cynical critiques may greet us.
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Ski racing is not about how much you weigh. If weight was the key, everybody would be sucking down food.
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Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.
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...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
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A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
