Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
Idina Menzel
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
Zadie Smith
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Good design should be honest.
Ferdinand Porsche
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
Imelda May
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
Samantha Barks
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.
Pope Benedict XVI
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If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
Ben Harper
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When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.
Lewis Carroll
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The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
