Anton Chekhov Quotes

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

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• Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

  

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• And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.

  

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• To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.

  

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• We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

  

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• I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.

  

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• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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• Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.

  

  Dana Perino
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• People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

  

  Jackie Collins
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• Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

  

  Zoe Saldana
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• I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.

  

  Rachel Keller
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• I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • World
  • Music
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• Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

  

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  • Love
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• 'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
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• French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.

  

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• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
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• Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.

  

  Natalie Maines
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• I admire Ridley Scott, and I'm thrilled to be making a movie for him.

  

  Christopher Plummer
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• Every morning I shall concern myself anew about the boundary Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No And pressing forward honor reality.We cannot avoid Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

  

  Martin Buber
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• The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible and impossible to tell.

  

  Yasumasa Morimura
  • World
  • Art
  • Value

• The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • World
  • Petty