Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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You just have to do what you know is right.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.
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To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
