"Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing."

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Source : Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). “Early Poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#Age Quotes #Gaps Quotes #Talent Quotes

“The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.”
“The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.”
“As an actor, it doesn't happen often that somebody sends you a script that is first of all that good.”
“In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.”
“Every economic...acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing one's own human potential.”
“I want to be on the floor. I want to fight for the win.”
“One can not be just if one is not humane.”
“We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about. We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty.”

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