Anton Chekhov Quotes
The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.
Quotes to Explore
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.
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I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
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I thought celebrity meant Hollywood, that's it. I began to see that does include Olympians. People have so much respect for Olympians.
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I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.
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I used to hate stilettos. It took me a lot of time to understand how to walk in them and look graceful. And eventually, you realise their importance.
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Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.
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Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.
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So you have to take the good with the bad.
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I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
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I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.
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Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.
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Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
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We mustn't be afraid of the truth.
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You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.
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Our sovereignty does not come from Brussels-it is ours by right and by heritage.
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I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.
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The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.
