Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

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• There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.

  

  Federica Montseny
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• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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• I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'

  

  Karen Robards
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• Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.

  

  Valerie Harper
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• Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
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• There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.

  

  Palmer Luckey
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• I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Up
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• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
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• You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

  

  Naomi Watts
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• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Human
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• To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.

  

  Gagan Narang
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• It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.

  

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• Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

  

  Larry Kramer
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• Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.

  

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• There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Children
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• What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• I'm sure people are badmouthing me. I think one of the interesting parts about the criticism has been the tenor of "how dare he." How dare an insider speak critically about other insiders?

  

  Mark Leibovich
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• Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
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