Andrei Platonov Quotes
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
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I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.
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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
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Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.
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People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.
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My favourite thing in the world is going out to get Chinese food, then coming home and renting a movie.
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Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
