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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A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
Anthony Browne
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We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see how child rearing patterns produce nurturing adult behaviors.
Elise M. Boulding
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A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that if, say, Oscar Wilde had lived into his nineties, instead of dying in his forties, he would have been considered a benign, distinguished figure suitable to preside at a school prize-giving or to instruct and exhort scout masters at their jamborees. He might even have been knighted.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Trash has given us an appetite for art.
Pauline Kael
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I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.
Joanna Coles
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The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
