Gaston Bachelard Quotes
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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I heard 'More Than A Feeling' for the first time when somebody came running into my office in the engineering department and said, 'Your song's on the radio in the drafting department!'
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America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.
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I went from working with Spielberg to working with Clint Eastwood - I might as well just retire.
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I've worked on shows where the lead actor doesn't know their lines, doesn't care, and it affects everybody - the crew, the director, the other actors. It's definitely a responsibility.
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I really took it in-house. The Constantine character has a kind of flesh-and-blood practical look at things that would seem, other people would use the word, occult or spiritual. But here, demons are real. So for me it was more taking it from the film itself. I didn't really need to go outside the piece itself to inform me because the perspective on it, what the character does, was provided by the script.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
