#ai

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one! ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#give #give me #just #just one #little

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#justice #late #like #nearly #train

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#begins #does #man #only #others

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#character #comes #comic #even #failure

I came home in the afternoon to sleep, and there was this e-mail from Comedy Central saying they were interested in having me be part of this new show called 'Jump Cuts'! So I called them right away, and the producer started laughing and said, 'We sent that e-mail one minute ago - you're so fast!' ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#ago #away #called #came #central

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.' ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#brown #cartoon #charlie #charlie brown #comedy

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#enjoying #entertaining #leisure #life #main

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#i #i can #i think #insular #kind

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#another #becomes #creates #deep #economic

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. ↗

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#always #calm #command #easy #find