Gaston Bachelard Quotes
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.
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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I got a big mouth.
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I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
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We have spent so many years looking at images of another beauty ideal and so many years taking in magazine covers and films that represent a beauty standard that we'll never meet. People don't realize that there are makeup artists and hairstylists behind the scenes - even in something as simple as a 'candid' Instagram photo.
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It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I’ll look like before I start cleaning the slates.
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Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
