Anton Chekhov Quotes
It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don’t just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.Anton Chekhov
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You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
Jack Dorsey -
I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
Jackie Jackson The Jacksons -
No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
Fisher Stevens -
My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
Finn Jones -
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
Karin Slaughter -
The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
Walter Cronkite -
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.
Adam D'Angelo -
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
Karl Kraus -
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
H. Rap Brown -
That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
Wanda Sykes
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
Hannibal Buress -
I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that.
Gary Sherman -
I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
Sam Neill -
I get cast a lot of times in movies with nice people for some reason - because I have a nice face or something.
Elizabeth Reaser
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We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.
Jordan Peele -
Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.
Leland Ryken -
Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
Larry Wilmore -
When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.
Aja Monet -
It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don’t just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.
Anton Chekhov