Grigori Perelman Quotes

#1. Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

Henri Matisse

#2. I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

Grigori Perelman

#3. I write for the joy of writing. It is the air I breathe and the joy of my life.

Charlene Iverson

#4. It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

Grigori Perelman

#5. If they need my C.V., they don't know my work.

Grigori Perelman

#6. Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?

Grigori Perelman

#7. Adversity reminds men of religion.

Livy

#8. Your stage persona is usually a version of yourself, to varying degrees. Some folks do a full-on character, so that's different. But most comics do some version of themselves.

Ted Alexandro

#9. I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me?

Grigori Perelman

#10. Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

Kevin Spacey

#11. For years we have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief. It was getting hard to go around not liking everything.

David Byrne

#12. Everybody understood that if the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed .

Grigori Perelman

#13. When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.

Betty Friedan

#14. It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label ... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

Kurt Cobain