Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

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• My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

  

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• If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

  

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• I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

  

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• In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

  

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• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

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• Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

  

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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

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• Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

  

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• In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.

  

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• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

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• You just have to take control of your own performance.

  

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• After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.

  

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• In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.

  

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• After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

  

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• Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

  

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• If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.

  

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• Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?

  

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• As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.

  

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• No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

  

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• If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

  

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• Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.

  

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• I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

  

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• Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.

  

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• The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • World
  • Woman
  • Immense