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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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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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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I'm always trying to find the balance between diet and fitness that will make my brain function at its optimum. What I discovered works for me is no refined sugars, processed foods, wheat, and dairy - that's when I'm functioning at my best.
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Growing up, I never saw any Asian faces on TV, so it didn't feel like a viable option.
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The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.
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People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.
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The French view is really one of balance, I think... What French women would tell me over and over is, it's very important that no part of your life - not being a mom, not being a worker, not being a wife - overwhelms the other part.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
