Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I am a common man. Why do I need security?
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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The toxic effect of carbon monoxide on man has nothing to do with inhibition of cellular respiration by carbon monoxide but is based on the reaction of carbon monoxide with blood iron.
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But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.
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I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.
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The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.
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I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
