Gaston Bachelard Quotes
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
Quotes to Explore
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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As mainstream religious leaders of different faiths get together, it strengthens the voice of moderation.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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No man may make another free.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.
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These were my people; cells in my best image; my negation and deletion. In seeing them, I named them, and they began to spurt. She leaned with her whole life to kiss me. I was awake again and so was Darrel, the most awake we’d ever been. I walked through the kitchen over the piles of sleeping or prone pleased bodies to pretend I could see out through the mirror over the window to the flat backyard.
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I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
