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.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Sad

• There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
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• And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • Kids
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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.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Why
  • Remember
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• I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Flying
  • Own
  • Leave

• 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.

  

  Sam Neill
  • World
  • Acting
  • Sea

• 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.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• 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
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Experience
  • Lucky
  • Very

• I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Fall
  • Race
  • Back

• 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.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Heart
  • Book
  • True

• I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good And Bad

• Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Play
  • Wall
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• I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • You
  • Way
  • Will

• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bad
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• 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.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Money
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Want
  • Wisdom
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Smart

• I used to think I needed to have drama at all times, or I wouldn't have the fuel for the performance. Now I know that's not true. That doesn't mean I don't feel it, but I recognize it when I do and put the brakes on. And if the performance isn't what it might have been once, I've learned not to judge myself as much.

  

  Audra McDonald
  • True
  • Drama
  • Judge

• I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Time

• Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Art
  • Man

• Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Great

• All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Great