Andrei Platonov Quotes
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
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The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
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A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.
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One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism. ... The second possible mistake would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country. And the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.
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Focus on the positives is what I teach my kids. The rest takes care of itself.
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If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
