Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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One of my favorite traditions is that my sisters and I, we all wear the same pajamas. I've even still got some from when I was 6. Also, I'll always remember cooking together in the kitchen and that no matter how busy our schedules are, we are all together for Christmas.
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I think any actor just wants to keep working, and for me, I want to work on projects that are with fun people.
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All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
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Isn't she lovely made from love?
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We need to commit to serve the Lord and our communities with the same diligence and faith that the pioneers had. We must ever be on our guard that we do not become casual in keeping God's commandments, in abiding by His laws, and in being honest and trustworthy in all that we do.
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It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.
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We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
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Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.
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What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.
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A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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He has a 5 year plan... What is it, don't die?
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Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance. All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes. My fur-lined overcoat gave me such a glow of health that very shortly after acquiring it I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain.
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I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years.
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India's had two groovy moments. Once when the Beatles went to India and now when Madonna has embraced yoga.
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[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.
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Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind.
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You can learn a lesson the first time, when it's presented in a package that is joyous - or at least palatable. But if you don't learn the lesson the first time, then there will be a second time and a third time. And each time it will just get harder and harder.
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I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!
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Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
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The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers
