Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.
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There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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We were due for this win. This team knew we needed a win, and every player needed to do something to contribute to the win.
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In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is no destruction or decomposition of pure air and the increase in weight of the body burnt is exactly equal to the weight of air destroyed or decomposed. The body burnt changes into an acid by addition of the substance that increases its weight. Pure air is a compound of the matter of fire or of light with a base. In combustion the burning body removes the base, which it attracts more strongly than does the matter of heat, which appears as flame, heat and light.
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I would like to continue acting. I tell people I can't go back to real life. I have to see how far I can go with it. I am serious about it, and I believe that it's my calling. I think it's what my life's path is. It's what God has given me. It's what I was born to do. And so I must do it.
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Having books published is very destructive to writing.
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The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.
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Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.
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She is loveliness itself.
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I was processing a lot of different things and kind of looking over a lot of things and rethinking my childhood.
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Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.
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Even after choreographing some big numbers, I didn't qualify as the top choreographer. You need to have godfathers and big people to support you for others to take you seriously.
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I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.
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But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.
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When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what I understand the character to be. There's very little time for rehearsal.
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Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.
