Andrei Platonov Quotes
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
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Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
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I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.
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Certainly, Occupy Wall Street protesters have different ideas about the movement's mission. Many of the marchers I met even disagreed on the purpose of their trek - some thought it was about getting to Washington to protest the 'supercommittee'; others thought it was about visiting other Occupations.
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The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.
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I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
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At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.