Anton Chekhov Quotes
I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.
Quotes to Explore
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.
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Sans douteJe peux apprendre à coqueriquer: je glougloute.
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I can go and fight, take one punch, and have a concussion and start having issues with it, or I can wrestle my entire career and never have a concussion. It's just a hazard of the business.
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Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.
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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.
