Anton Chekhov Quotes

Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

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• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Name
  • Last

• My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Inspired

• My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Think
  • Gay

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Car

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Education
  • Really
  • Skills

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• I know what poverty is.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Poverty

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Art
  • Design

• I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Better
  • Saturday
  • Dinner

• I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Understood
  • Appreciated

• It's great living with your best friends.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Best

• When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Important
  • Think

• If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • You
  • Alone
  • Concrete

• I was looking for a fast ball, and just hoping it would fall. But I'll play wherever they put me, I'll do anything I can to help.

  

  Jeremy Barnes A Hawk and a Hacksaw
  • Looking
  • Fast
  • Hoping

• We're all Vanilla Ice. Look at Girl Talk and Danger Mouse. Look at William Burroughs, whose cut-up books antedate hip hop sampling by decades. Shakespeare remixed passages of Holinshed's 'Chronicles' in 'Henry VI.' Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture' embeds the French national anthem.

  

  David Shields
  • Up
  • Girl

• I'm human, just like anybody else.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Human

• Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • People
  • May
  • Challenge

• You've had all that punk and New Wave thing, and I think people have really got sick up to here with it. I know I have.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • People
  • Up
  • Sick

• Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Respect
  • Friendship