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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: russian
Birth: November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881

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Fool Man Opinion Month Who Once

It's very hard to tell an actor, 'Stop acting.' It's easy to tell a non-actor, because they're embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy.

Happy Easy Acting Stop Actor Hard

Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.

John Hickenlooper

Car Time Walk Day Door Small

I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking a kid's hand. It can make a fan's day. It can make a fan's life.

Life Day Simple Think Understand

In our hands, even the straightest lyric sounded shady.

Hands Shady Even Our Lyric

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Beautiful Writing Think End You

But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed.

Best Debate Down Go Tell Kentucky

I wish I could write 'Taxi Driver,' or 'Blue Velvet,' something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don't know if I have the darkness in my own soul to be able to tap into it, unfortunately.

Stephen Merchant

Darkness Soul Blue Brave Wish Dark

I didn't get the high school opportunity, but it always worked out.

Opportunity School High School High

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

Mary Ellen Mark

Heart Soul Photographer Always Where

I stopped watching sports because I didn't want to watch someone running up and down the field making millions and I'm not doing anything about it. That methodology made me go harder and take control of my career.

Sports Me Control Someone Doing Go

I've always been hard on myself, so I expect so much out of myself that that pressure can be inspiring at time.

Christian Pulisic

Time Myself Pressure Hard Out Been

Big successful corporations have established their own culture by the time you come along, so you have as high of a chance of changing their overall culture as you have of convincing the U.S. Marines to adopt the 'long-haired look' as their standard military haircut.

Time Culture Haircut Chance Look

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