Keith Gessen Quotes

Astana is a government city, not a tourist city, but all you do is tour it. You tour it in the cab from the airport, passing the gleaming new English-language Nazarbayev University and then the new soccer stadium, speed-skating track, and ten-thousand-seat velodrome.

Keith Gessen

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GovernmentCityYouSoccerAirport

I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.

John C. Reilly

SuccessGreatPeopleKeepAbleEven

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

Johann Arndt

WorldBlessingsChristianLustTrue

Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian - I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don't think I'm that type.

Jeremy Lin

DatingMeThinkRumorsWhereStuff

For some reason, I never watched Lifetime but just discovered it. I was like, 'Oh, it's all rom-coms!'

Jenny Slate

NeverReasonLifetimeJustLikeOh

I struggled with a lot of doubts around my songwriting and around what I was and what my purpose and mission were.

Jens Lekman

PurposeMissionSongwritingDoubts

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

Maurice Ashley

Do The Right ThingLookingThinkTry

I want to bring meaningful conversations to the table, and I want to shake some things up.

Andy Mineo

TableWantMeaningfulUpBringSome

Yakima Canutt was famously John Wayne's stunt double, and in the Western movie 'Stagecoach,' there is a fantastic scene where there are some horses thundering along, pulling a carriage. He climbs out onto the horses and drops down underneath them, so he's being dragged along, and then he lets go.

Steve Truglia

DownGoDropsOutDoubleStunt

Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little laugh. It's like a reflex.

Tom Stoppard

BehaviorLaughYouTrueHumanGive

Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.

Rowan Williams

GodCharacterBibleChristianSex

I know it is a cliche, but I am just going to focus on each game and try to do as well as I can.

Dele Alli

FocusI AmGameI CanKnowTry

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you're poking fun at someone or something, there's still an affection for it.

Bob Newhart

HumorFunThinkSomeoneYouChicago

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