Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
Saint Ignatius
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
Sam Harris
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
Ted Dekker
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Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
Nancy Gibbs
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My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
Xavier Dolan
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At one point, you were that employee who looked like a deer in headlights. Confused, lost, and not understanding your purpose within the organization. Even though you have the appropriate skills, you felt like you were in over your head. That is, until an amazing boss empowered you.
John Rampton
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I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
Brandon Boyd
Incubus
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Confidence comes from other places, not just how you look.
Darcey Bussell
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The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?
Ken Livingstone
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I am the last President of the United States!
James Buchanan
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He couldn't find anybody who would rent him a place to live, so he had to live in this woman's house.
Orlando Cepeda
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Is perhaps true to say, not that civil liberty is the child of religious liberty, but that liberty, whether civil or religious, was the work often reluctantly, sometimes unconsciously, undertaken by communities of men who had an end higher than political, who refused to submit religion to politic arguments, who fought for ends never entirely utilitarian.
Neville Figgis
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Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!
Patsy Kelly
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Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
Anna Godbersen
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
Rachel Cusk
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A lot of people, even if they know what VR is, see it as this tool to go in your basement and play Halo.
Palmer Luckey
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Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
