Andrei Platonov Quotes

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

Andrei Platonov

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• If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Self-Worth

• I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Family

• We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Night

• I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Professional
  • Friendship

• If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Failure

• I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Question

• It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Rap
  • Goddess

• I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Rest

• To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Thinking
  • Better
  • Start

• I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Myself

• The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

  

  Larry David
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Scene

• As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • You

• Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Color
  • Say
  • Yellow

• I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• So on and onwe walked without thinking of restpassing craters, passing fire,under the rocking sky of '41tottering crazy on its smoking columns.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Thinking
  • Crazy
  • Fire

• I've enjoyed the conversations that we've had. [Donald Trump] is somebody who I think is not lacking in confidence.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Confidence
  • Trump

• My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

  

  Frederick Reines
  • Life
  • Music
  • Country

• As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much better than you can actually rhyme it or stuff it into a song. It's very, very difficult to just kind of get your point across without going the back way. And you have to be good at that, to not think about things so hard. Let the pen take over, so that it's somebody else's job to dissect the lyrics and tell you what you're all about.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Good
  • Job
  • Song

• God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fool
  • Flirt
  • God Created

• During my time as a political strategist, one of the most vexing problems was figuring out why so many people vote against their perceived interests.

  

  James Carville
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

  

  Andrei Platonov
  • Thinking