Anton Chekhov Quotes
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
Quotes to Explore
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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I think there's always merit in getting out of our ideological silos and being exposed to points of view with which we don't always agree.
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We travel so much, I never adjust to time zones any more.
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This culling poem is a blessing. Why do you think it was created in the first place? It will save millions of people from the slow terrible death we're headed for from disease, from famine, drought, from solar radiation, from war, from all the places we're headed.
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Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people—with agents.
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You have to take a wheelbarrow full of money and roll out and try to make a movie out of it. But you run out of money eventually, and then it becomes painful and it becomes a struggle and time will kill the enthusiasm!
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There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
