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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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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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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Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.
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I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.
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Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
