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Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: russian
Birth: September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910

Topics

Change World Everyone Changing

Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.

Life Work Self Page Know Why

There comes a point in your life when you realize your parents aren't perfect.

Life Parents You Perfect Realize

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

Perfection You More Next See Going

I think there's no way of avoiding the South African or African influence from coming into my music, just because I spent 19 years of my life there. Being a kid, my early musical experiences were there.

Life Music Influence Think My Life

However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between citizens and governments sharply into political thinking, paving the way for popular democracy and constitutional republicanism.

Simon Mainwaring

Great Democracy Thinking Political

As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents - aside from 'Gulliver's Travels.'

Memories Children Parents Acting Set

We go into the studio with the mindset of simply wanting to make something great.

Great Mindset Go Something Wanting

And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.

You Actor Take Being Rough Smooth

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

Sports Play Tennis Used Squash Lot

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

Chen Guangcheng

Nature Good People Evil Feel Stop

I've been singing since I could talk, pretty much. My dad was really musical and taught me how to sing harmonies and got me a karaoke machine with tape decks.

Me Singing Talk Pretty Karaoke Sing

The writing was so clearly written on the wall about me, but I didn't see it. I had no role models. I didn't know there was even a possibility of being gay. I battled with it, but this was the way God made me. If you have a problem with it, take it up with the man upstairs.

God Man Me Writing Problem You

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