Gaston Bachelard Quotes
To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream
Quotes to Explore
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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The new government will have three major improvements. It is time to improve the economy in Taiwan.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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One is at rest with people who want one; they are like a warm house with the door wide open. And one trusts an open door, for trust begets trust, and if the people inside didn’t trust you they wouldn’t leave it open.
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To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream
