Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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Then he tried to recall the lessons of Mr. Wisdom. 'it is I myself, eternal Spirit, who drives this Me, the slave, along that ledge. I ought not to care whether he falls and breaks his neck or not. It is not he that is real, it is I – I – I.
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We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.
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I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.
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I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
