Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
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Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.
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For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default.
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Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.
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An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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After my 10-match ban in 2013 for biting Branislav Ivanovic, I had questioned the double standards and how the fact that no one actually gets hurt is never taken into consideration.
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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
