Anton Chekhov Quotes

When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.

Anton Chekhov

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• The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.

  

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• I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
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• I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
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• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
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• At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

  

  Karl Jaspers
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• Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
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  • Evidence
  • Conspiracy

• In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
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  • Grow

• I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
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• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Age
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• Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

  

  Jack Bowman
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• You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

  

  Kate Bosworth
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• For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

  

  Zell Miller
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• You have to say, 'We think it's going to work. Let's go with it.' Either you're going to kill the world, or you're going to fall on your rear end.

  

  David L. Wolper
  • World
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• Those having torches will pass them on to others.

  

  Plato
  • Pass
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• I like Houston. It's the last great 19th-century city. Houston has a spirit about it that is truly American, an optimism. People there aren't afraid to try something new.

  

  Philip Johnson
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• If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

  

  Claudette Colbert
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  • Laugh

• Tweeting is something you can do wherever you are, on your phone, on the computer, in an airport lounge. It's easy to do, and I do find it fun to communicate with people. It's quite nice that we can have almost direct contact with anyone in the world at any time. I don't know how important it is in terms of one's career. It seems to be pretty much superfluous in terms of that, but it's nice to communicate.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
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• When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Life
  • Death