Gaston Bachelard Quotes
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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The vibe of London as a city is captivating. It's both fast-paced and extremely rushed but still has the calmness that would attract any big-city person.
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The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. ... To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I really just like making music. People call that 'work.' Like, 'Oh, you're going to the studio to work?' No, that's even what I do in my off day. I love recording.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
