Jerzy Kosinski Quotes
If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.
Jerzy Kosinski
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
Eckhart Tolle
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
Natalie Cole
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
Harald zur Hausen
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I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.
Karisma Kapoor
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
Barbara Kingsolver
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As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.
Karen DeCrow
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I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.
Sakshi Tanwar
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
Earl Warren
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I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow from it. You just have to try to take what you can from it and then move on to the next phase of your life to be better.
Karen Handel
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That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.
Omari Hardwick
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I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
Taiye Selasi
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In the early 1970s, phone phreaks manipulated the long-distance system using blue boxes that they built from sketchy photocopied schematics that were often riddled with errors. Not many had the skill to do this. Phreaking was restricted to a select few.
Charles Platt
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The thought of becoming a painter never as much as occurred to me. I would have laughed out loud if someone had suggested that I choose painting as a career. To be a painter is not a business, no more than to be an artist, lover, racer, dreamer, or prizefighter. It is a gift of Nature, a gift..
Maurice de Vlaminck
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Pilar sat squeezed up against the window and thought how very odd the English smelt.
Agatha Christie
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Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?
John Stossel
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My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.
Beverly Cleary
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If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.
Jerzy Kosinski
