Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

Ive never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

History is more interesting than politics.

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.

Let the Sun Shining in our Brain Storm to Happiness

Smile and the world smiles with you...Weep and you weep alone.

Either you make things happen or you quit.

Genius is patience.

If E.F. Harriman paid me what he's paying those guys to stop me from robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.

There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.

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