Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
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If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
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I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
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This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.
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In Jiu-Jitsu, every instinct you have wants to do everything but relax or breathe when someone's attacking you, and learning that takes a long time. I think that's why a lot of people stop at blue belt because it's really hard to do. It's hard to take that next step. It took me a long time.
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I've been a cook all my life, but I am still learning to be a good chef. I'm always learning new techniques and improving beyond my own knowledge because there is always something new to learn and new horizons to discover.
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At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to call to constantly into question the very tale we believe true, because the criterion of the wisdom of the community is based on constant awareness of the fallibility of our learning.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
