Anton Chekhov Quotes
Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one’s dignity.
Quotes to Explore
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
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I enjoy money.
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I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.
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Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.
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I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.
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My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.
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At different degrees, everything is pathology, except for indifference.
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Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one’s dignity.
