Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
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I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.
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I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
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Music for us is about articulating the feelings you can't put into words.
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The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.
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In the fall of 1973, Erica Jong assaulted the last surviving bastions of old-fashioned modesty with her 'Fear of Flying.'
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We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
