Gaston Bachelard Quotes
A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Women drive box office.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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The private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities.
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You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.
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All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.
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The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.
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In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
