Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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I'd like to do a really masculine film.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
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There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.
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At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.
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In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.
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I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.
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Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
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All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.
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A good society is a society which believes that it is not good enough; that it is the task of the collectivity to insure individuals against individually suffered misfortune; and that the quality of society is measured by the quality of life of its weakest, just like the carrying power of a bridge is measured by its weakest pillar.
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
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The Beatles may be more popular than Jesus but heavy cats like Chairman Mao, Uncle Ho, and beautiful long-haired Che Guevara are more popular than The Beatles.
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I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.
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I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."
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Prayer can do anything that God can do.
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Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate.
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No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.
