Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
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I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.
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There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.
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For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.
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A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
