Andrei Platonov Quotes

I lived and languished.

Andrei Platonov

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: September 1, 1899 - January 5, 1951

Topics

Lived

I hate striking out, doesn't matter what time of the game. I just don't like striking out.

Joe Mauer

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I feel happy when I look at my grandson, who is 10 months old. That relaxes me.

Andrew Tan

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I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

Andrew Bird

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There are songs where no matter how much you know you shouldn't - like the Ying Yang Twins' 'Shake' - I'll be in a dress, and I'll krump to it. It's horrible!

Anna Chlumsky

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A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

Ani DiFranco

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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Simone Weil

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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Roland Barthes

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My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American television was reprehensible, so I was raised on the BBC. I kind of agreed with her. We watched American news, though.

Joss Whedon

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I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

Jonathan Glazer

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I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

Doug Liman

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It is up to us, to this present generation of Americans, to take a stand for freedom, to send a message to Washington that we're taking our future back from the grips of central planners who would control our healthcare, who would spend our treasure, who downgrade our future and micro-manage our lives.

Rick Perry

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There is a difference between movie actors and TV acting, especially with movie stars, which is they know their face is 20 feet high on the screen. They know they don't have to do much.

Noah Hawley

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