Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself - if I want the impossible.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
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I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.
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Blood and death. That moves me.
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What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself - if I want the impossible.
