Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
Sam Heughan
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
Jack Levine
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
Rachel Kushner
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
M. J. Rose
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
Orson Welles
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
Dan Pink
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
Patrick J. Kennedy
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
Nate Powell
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Enjoy every sandwich.
Warren Zevon
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
Sam Simon
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
Carles Puigdemont
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I get recognized by some people in my community, but not a lot. In fact, they would say, 'What do you do?' And I would say, 'Well, I did 'The Bernie Mac Show.'' And they would say, 'Oh, really? Well, do you know so-and-so?' And I'd say, 'Yeah, I hired them. I was the boss!' They don't believe it.
Larry Wilmore
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Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
Arthur Smith
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You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?
H. R. Giger
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I was a young kid; I did a little time in the Billerica House of Correction, and it basically turned my life around because I said, 'Oh, I'll never be locked up again. They're not taking away my privacy.' So I flipped a coin: heads - Miami, tails -California.
Alex Rocco
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Every life is precious.
Emmylou Harris
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I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.
J. J. Watt
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The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
