Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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The thing about leaving New York is that you can come back.
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I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.
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p. 163-4 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 15-16
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.
