A Quote by Andrei Platonov

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

Andrei Platonov

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Busy Forgot Himself Man Remake World

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Andrei Platonov
Russian - Writer
September 1, 1899 - January 5, 1951

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

Sydney Pollack

The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question.

Andre Malraux

I was well aware of that when I heard they were remaking 'Total Recall.' My first reaction was: 'Ewww, really okay?' And the director said you should really look at it, the script is good. I had already done a remake. I had just finished 'Fright Night.' When I heard about that being remade, I had a whole ego thing... remake?. 'That is so uncool! I loved the original, I can't possibly do that.

Colin Farrell

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Fulton J. Sheen

Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.

Yasmin Mogahed

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Alexis Carrel

I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.

Gus Van Sant

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

Abu Bakr

Often I would get offers to remake films and that didn't interest me. I have no interest in remaking a film in Hindi which has been made in the south already. I prefer adapting from a book than a movie.

Sriram Raghavan

It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.

Ed Koch

I did Kushi Kushiga,' the remake of Chronic Bachelor;' Kalyana Ramudu,' which is the remake of Kalyanaraman;' and also Software Ganda' in Kannada, the remake of My Boss.'

Nikita Thukral

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

Michael Caine

The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, oh, very busy and very businesslike.

Lincoln Steffens

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises himself ... and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe's man ... a spectator of the world ... Third Schopenhauer's man ... voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth.