Gaston Bachelard Quotes
The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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Longer and more frequent delays for international passengers at Bush will only cede business to Houston's competitors - and the jobs that go along with it.
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I also believe that using polo as a platform to give back is a very humble way to position this sport, because people sometimes look at this sport as a little bit snobby. So I love to use polo as a platform to help.
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People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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I got no entourage in real life. Solo. I go solo. No entourage.
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You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.
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The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.
