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

• I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year.

  

  Donal Logue
  • People
  • Air

• A lot of people like the idea of eternal love and eternal romance. The notion of love that is more profound and deeper because it is eternal is very powerful.

  

  James Patterson
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Profound

• I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

  

  Maxine Waters
  • Nice
  • Angry

• No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

  

  William Wilberforce
  • World
  • Men
  • Ignorance

• 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