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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No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.
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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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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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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 am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best.
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The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.
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The most beautiful destination I've been to was the Seychelles Islands, and the most culturally inspiring place was Mumbai, India.
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Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
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... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
