Anton Chekhov Quotes
I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.

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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them – I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
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Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.
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You come out of a working-class environment, you know, working-class kids always put them themselves together because it's one of the only things they had. You had control of your image.
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If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.
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Empathy is one of our greatest tools of business that is most underused.
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I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.