Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.
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I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the use of electrical instruments which will make available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard. Photoelectric, film and mechanical mediums for the synthetic production of music will be explored.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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Liberty, n. One of imagination's most precious possessions.
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It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.
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It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
