Gaston Bachelard Quotes
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal creation (as opposed to a didactic statement) from one language to another, he is confronted with two equally unsatisfactory choices. He may, according to his talents, elaborate a similar, but never identical creation, or he may describe that creation as completely as possible in his own language.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.
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I try to keep a low profile.
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Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
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A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
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This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
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My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
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This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal creation (as opposed to a didactic statement) from one language to another, he is confronted with two equally unsatisfactory choices. He may, according to his talents, elaborate a similar, but never identical creation, or he may describe that creation as completely as possible in his own language.
