Alexander Herzen Quotes

If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there.

Alexander Herzen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: April 6, 1812 - January 21, 1870

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'Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.

Joe Wright

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If Poindexter made a comment to me like that, it would have been in the context of once the authorized program is approved there would be no point in having any of these private benefactors any longer.

Robert M. Gates

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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.

Stephen Fry

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I'm a fan of the Grateful Dead.

Stephen Malkmus

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In my mind, I don't necessarily associate a summer show with lightness.

Stephanie Savage

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Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

Simon Newcomb

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My obligation is to the movie audiences.

Ron Howard

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I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'

Mary J. Blige

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It's easy to assume that just because you make something in small volumes, not using many tools, that there is integrity and care - that is a false assumption.

Jonathan Ive

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I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.

Dayo Okeniyi

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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Aristotle

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I've often thought books give you - put you in a world that you never thought you could go. And I often would say, I don't need to go to California. Give me a book that talks about California. And I can put it in my head and imagine what it looked like.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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