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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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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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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
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I am a common man. Why do I need security?
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.
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For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
