Anton Chekhov Quotes

If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.'

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• You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • You
  • Look
  • Will

• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
  • Doing The Right Thing

• Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Opinion

• I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • Judge
  • Start
  • Election

• I sleep better on the road than I do at home. I'm used to sleeping in a million different hotels. I'm not home very often, so when I get home, I have things I want to do.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Different
  • Home
  • Sleep

• I have no privacy anymore.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Privacy
  • Anymore

• Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Time
  • Innovation

• I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • She
  • Want
  • Me

• My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Day
  • Always

• I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Passion

• Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Love
  • Positive
  • Love Is

• I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Doing
  • Movies

• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Pride
  • Ignorance
  • Self

• Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Women
  • Free
  • Rest

• Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Think
  • Voice
  • Saying

• I want to make this world perfect.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Want
  • Perfect

• The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.

  

  Neil Cross
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.

  

  David Morrissey
  • Lazy

• News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Mind
  • American
  • Chance

• We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.

  

  Karl Hess
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Exercise

• We'd had three tough losses in a row and everybody was down. I think our players said to themselves: 'Our backs are up against the wall and we've got no other option other than just to win, and if we lose another game we're probably out.' So they kind of took it as this last stand, and it was that way every week . . .somehow we found a way to win those last five.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Game
  • Wall

• If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.'

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Wall