Nazim Hikmet (Nâzım Hikmet Ran) Quotes
That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.
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I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
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If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.
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While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.
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My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.
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Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.
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And with just 4 minutes gone, the score is already 0-0.
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Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
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If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
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People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go.
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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
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Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.
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Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.
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That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.
