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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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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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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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.
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The best way I've learned to navigate pivotal moments in my career is by actively cultivating a personal board of directors. The most successful companies and nonprofits have strong boards to help guide them, so why not create our own? The needs are quite similar.
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I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
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A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.
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People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.
