Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
Carlton Cuse -
Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
Madi Diaz -
I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
Gary Coleman -
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.
Malala Yousafzai -
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.
Irving Stone -
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens -
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman -
The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process is very distinctly weighted against the asking of an intelligent question or the recording of a thoughtful answer.
Christopher Hitchens -
I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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The speakers I value don't just sound intelligent but can boil down complex issues in a clear, understandable way that encourages the public to think about the solutions.
Kevin Brady -
If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they're either not terribly intelligent or they're not doing something well.
Christopher Guest -
I think Maura'is funnier than I am, wittier than I am, more intelligent than I am, and I think she's just floating me at this point.
Jeffrey Tambor -
Can a person be inspirational? Does a person have global sensibility? That's the hardest thing to find.
Anand Mahindra -
I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like that so I'd love to find - and real too. Not necessarily the superhero perfect archetype of what an action hero is represented as a lot of times. I would love to find that kind of action heroine role to play.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead -
The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.
John Cusack
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You know, you can try and plan filmin as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt.
Michael B. Jordan -
Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
Is there any fairness in a system where a group of people can borrow a bunch of money to buy a company and pay themselves millions of dollars in dividends and fees, while the company itself ends up bankrupt and its employees lose their jobs, health insurance and pensions?
William D. Cohan -
Benny [Carter] opened the eyes of a lot of producers and studios, so that they could understand that you could go to blacks for other things outside of blues and barbecue. He's a total musician. He was the pioneer, he was the foundation. He made it possible for that doubt to be taken away.
Quincy Jones -
There's no reason to do anything twice, and certainly no reason to do something that almost killed you.
Sebastian Junger -
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec