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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Half the battle is confidence. There are people who have great figures but have terrible confidence so you are not drawn to them because they seem down all the time.
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In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.
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When people say to me, 'You make us proud,' it's heartwarming to hear that.
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We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test.
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It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection.
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People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.
