Andrei Platonov Quotes
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.
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The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
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Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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I always do something that I've never done before.
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Must say though, I'm rather chuffed to have been called a 'luvvie'.
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For those whose lives have been turned upside down by Chinese drywall, we're trying to give them a chance to seek justice.
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My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings.
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I've learnt that, even though I've travelled about, I haven't changed that much.
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'The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).
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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
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The one show that I will continue to be a guest on is 'The Daily Show' with Jon Stewart, if he'll have me. It's not competitive with CNN and it's too much fun.
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In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.
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Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.
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I'm an interpreter of music.
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We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.
