Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
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We got dreams and we got the right to chase 'em, Look at the nation, that's a crooked smile braces couldn't even straighten.
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Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.
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There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
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Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.
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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
