Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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Love and faith are both a search, a process, it doesn't stay the same; it comes and goes. In some people, it's asleep for a long time and then it wakes up as it evolves.
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
