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.'
Anton Chekhov
Quotes to Explore
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Baruch Spinoza
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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
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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
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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
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I want to make this world perfect.
Malala Yousafzai
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
Ted Turner
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.
Aimee Teegarden
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With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.
Adam McKay
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I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.
Kathryn Harrison
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When you work at 'The Wall Street Journal,' the coins of the realm are truth and trust - the latter flowing exclusively from the former.
Bret Stephens
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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