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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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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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.
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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, 'Gee, these things are only 17 pages long! I could probably finish one of those and find out whether I suck before I've spent five years of my life on it.' In stumbling into comics that way, I discovered that I loved the form.
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
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Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
