Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
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We shred every day.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men's and women's brains are different - my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that's part of their joy.
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In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.
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Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
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The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
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At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.
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The children of today are the builders of a brave, new world - a world without want.
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As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.
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I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.
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Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
