Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
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Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.
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When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.
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Nobody's dumb in this relationship [with his wife] or in the relationships of any of the other guys in the band. But it's also not the cliché that those on the outside envision.
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The early pictures of me you see online, in just T-shirts and hoodies - I'm still that guy with the hoodie. But what you don't get to see in most of those pics is that I had these red clogs on that had, like, eyeballs on the ends of them that I drew on. That speaks a little bit more to what I was going after, stylistically.
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North Korea threatened to launch a missile at South Korea. North Korea backed down after South Korea threatened to launch a sequel to 'Gangnam Style.'
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Ronald Reagan's long journey has finally drawn to a close, ... optimism and ... Western can-do spirit.
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The day Christina comes out of her grave, that's the day he should get parole.
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All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?
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Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.
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I know what I want and I'm going to work to get it.
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To move past fear is a cliche.
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The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and the tragic and bitter end to it have always fascinated, appalled and attracted me since childhood. It was he who first in some measure vindicated my sexuality.
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If there is no God, then I am God.
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We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural.
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At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.
