Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
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Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.
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It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
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I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'
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You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Billie Jean King is one of the all-time tennis greats; she's one of the superstars. She's ready for the big one, but she doesn't stand a chance against me. Women's tennis is so far beneath men's tennis; that's what makes the contest with a 55-year-old man the greatest contest of all time.
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What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.
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I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.
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Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up
