Gaston Bachelard Quotes
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
Ban Ki-moon
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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.
Natasha Lyonne
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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.
Sam Rockwell
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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.
Karen Armstrong
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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.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
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Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
Tavi Gevinson
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
Florentijn Hofman
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster
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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.
Olga Kurylenko
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis
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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.
Rachael Ray
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
M. F. Husain
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
Calvin Klein
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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.
Queen Elizabeth II
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
Larry Kramer
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As mainstream religious leaders of different faiths get together, it strengthens the voice of moderation.
Ibrahim Hooper
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
Dan Quinn
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People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
Gary Ross
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By this time trapped inside the drug's reverie I could have sprayed out Michelangelo's Last Judgement on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. A yacht would be a beggar's handcart by comparison.
Ralph Steadman
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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Oscar Wilde
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Whenever you're feeling moments of discomfort, that means true change is happening for you.
John David Washington
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Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
Christopher Lasch
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
Gaston Bachelard