Andrei Platonov Quotes

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

Andrei Platonov

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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.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• 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.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Together
  • True

• 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.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Energy
  • Faith
  • Desire

• I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Idea

• 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.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • God
  • Believe
  • Hope

• The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Support
  • Partnership

• 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.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Living
  • Master
  • Slaves

• Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Success
  • Best
  • Goal

• One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Business

• I always do something that I've never done before.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Done
  • Always
  • Never

• Must say though, I'm rather chuffed to have been called a 'luvvie'.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Say
  • Rather
  • Though

• For those whose lives have been turned upside down by Chinese drywall, we're trying to give them a chance to seek justice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Trying
  • Justice
  • Chance

• 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.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• I've learnt that, even though I've travelled about, I haven't changed that much.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Changed
  • Though
  • Travelled

• '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).

  

  Manny Farber
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sleep

• We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • Universe
  • Courage
  • Admit

• Clearly, Mayor Bloomberg did some things right. I think he did a very good job on public health. He did a very good job on environment. I think he was right to achieve mayoral control of education. I don't think he then applied it the right way.

  

  Bill de Blasio
  • Good
  • Job
  • Education

• We've got to stop them now. Once they get a foothold, Palm Coast is no longer going to be a haven for people to move into.

  

  Jack Carroll
  • People
  • Move
  • Palm Coast

• What is important, what isn't important, and how do you clean yourself from all of the unimportant things. And then you can be content, and feel good with life, which is metaphorically speaking, "walking on water."

  

  Eytan Fox
  • Important
  • Water
  • Speaking

• Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Life, especially the life of an early-stage entrepreneur, is full of gigantic ups and downs. Make sure you don't let yourself get too high or too low. It's a marathon, and you just have to keep your legs moving at a steady pace.

  

  Chieh Huang
  • Life
  • High
  • Moving

• We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

  

  Andrei Platonov