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"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."
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"His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day."
Time
"The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family."
Family
"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them."
Food
"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."
Public
"There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles."
Boys
"No, the czar did not want us in the schools."
School
"The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die."
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"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful."
Life
"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."
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"If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them."
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"In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame."
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"I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit."
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"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."
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"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind."
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"I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too."
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"On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections."
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"I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage."
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"Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same."
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"I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face."
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"Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints."
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