Anton Chekhov Quotes
People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
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No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed. When the self is renounced, then one stands utterly disillusioned, apart, asking for nothing. If anything comes to us, it is all sheer gain. Then life becomes one constant surprise.
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The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter.
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People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.
