Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me – you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.
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God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.
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Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.
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I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.
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Just because somebody is blood-related doesn't make them family.
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I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind.
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It's the nature of an actor to have to use sense memory.
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No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.
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I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.
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Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
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The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.
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I frequently find after a rehearsal of a performance that I have more breath, and can walk better and climb stairs better than I could before. It's as if I've expanded my lungs doing it. Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.
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I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think.
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
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Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.
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Jeremy Beaumont-Jones had been lucky enough to be born rich. He wasn’t in the mad oligarch class but once you’re past a certain point, the sheer weight of your money sucks in wealth like a financial singularity. If you’re sensible enough not to blow it on race horses, cocaine or musical theatre, then it becomes a perpetual-motion money making machine.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.
