Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.
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I was officially advised that during the long vacation it might be profitable to attain at least a nodding acquaintance with the curriculum, and thus stave off the already likely possibility that I would receive a degree classified so low it would be tantamount to a certificate of mental disability.
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Remember this about the Korean War: The men were drafted; the women volunteered.
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Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.
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I feel like a lot of funders of documentaries today want to fund films that have a social message that is going to yield results.
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The camera looks into your soul.
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I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.
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Hormone blockers changed and saved my life.
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Time flies whether you are having fun or not.
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You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.
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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
