Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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I lost all my investments after everything crashed in 2001. Prior to that, I'd been living off the interest on my investments, which was very healthy because it allowed frequent travel, and I had a lovely apartment.
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We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.
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In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
