Anton Chekhov Quotes

Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

Anton Chekhov

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• Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Hip Hop

• If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • May
  • Help

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

  

  Major Owens
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Exercise

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • You
  • Learning

• After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Like
  • Big
  • Seeing

• Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Real
  • Food
  • Community

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Model

• Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Obsessed
  • General
  • Sneakers

• Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Good
  • Question
  • Heaven

• If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • You
  • Nothing

• I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Star

• If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Lazy
  • Get

• I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Golf

• I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Battle
  • Planets

• Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

  

  Bono U2
  • People
  • Music
  • Eloquent

• Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.

  

  Bill Viola
  • Work
  • Giving

• So the HP guy comes up to me (at the Melbourne conference) and he says, 'If you say nasty things like that to vendors you're not going to get anything'. I said, 'No, in eight years of saying nothing, we've got nothing, and I'm going to start saying nasty things, in the hope that some of these vendors will start giving me money so I'll shut up'.

  

  Theo de Raadt
  • Said
  • Eight
  • Conferences

• We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, whether it's Islamophobia, xenophobia or homophobia. I've been trying to do things that expose and help teach and draw attention to all of the 'isms' and how we do or don't deal with them in our world.

  

  Bonnie Hammer
  • World
  • Trying
  • May

• Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • World
  • Money