Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
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While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
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I think it's cool people love to hate me.
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I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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History is not hatred.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
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You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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You don't have to wait-you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
