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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I've met some of the most beautiful women in the world, and I can tell you lots of them are the most unattractive people I've ever met.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.
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Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point.
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A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
