Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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• Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Time
  • Age
  • Process

• If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Conscious

• We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Kid

• Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Man
  • Answer

• When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Think
  • You
  • Dress

• I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.

  

  M. Emmet Walsh
  • Different
  • Together
  • Animal

• Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Writing
  • Stop
  • Process

• (Econometrics is) the unification of economic theory, statistics and mathematics.

  

  Ragnar Frisch

• He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it at demand.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Wish

• 'In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.'

  

  Alan Moore

• In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing

• I've always been into looking different.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Different

• There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.

  

  Nellie McKay

• And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

  

  Marlene Dietrich
  • World
  • America
  • Sex

• Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

  

  Jean-Francois Lyotard
  • Knowledge

• My mom is such a strong, independent, strong-willed woman, and she always taught me to accept my worth for how I viewed myself and female empowerment, and it's okay to be independent and also need someone at the same time. I kinda get to be both.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Time
  • She
  • Strong

• The core of my writing is not art but truth.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Truth

• Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Forget
  • Chess
  • Youngsters

• The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Winter
  • Oil
  • Juice

• Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Up
  • Never
  • Grow

• By 1938, Eleanor Roosevelt was so angry at FDR's policies, she writes a book called This Troubled World. And it is actually a point-by-point rebuttal of her husband's foreign policy. We need collective security. We need a World Court. We need something like the League of Nations. We need to work together to fight fascism. We need embargoes against aggressor nations, and we need to name aggressor nations. All of which is a direct contradiction of FDR's policies.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Angry
  • Security
  • Policies

• We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Masses
  • Epoch
  • Suppression