Alexander Zinoviev Quotes
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Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.
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I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.
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I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
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Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.
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It’s up to us to go out and put the final pieces together.
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I think it's my job to fight. The studio makes you question your idea, and you have to prove it.
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Whoever we are, we have to carve something out of our lives. I would like to be on my deathbed going, 'I've enjoyed that. I went through the rollercoaster of it, but I've appreciated it.'
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Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.
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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
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I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.
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The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
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People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
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I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.
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There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.
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Perestroika is nothing but a spectacle organized from above.