Anton Chekhov Quotes
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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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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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.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.
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Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.
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Changi became my university instead of my prison. … Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving.
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.
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All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
