Anton Chekhov Quotes
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
Quotes to Explore
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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The relationship between God and his people was always the one having absolute primacy, the one that had basically to determine all human relationships, whether those within the covenanted community itself or those between the covenanted community and the outside world.
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I think most people want to be remembered with the causes they feel worthwhile and helped promote.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
