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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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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I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.
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I kind of follow in the tradition of some folks - some thinkers and scholars I really look up - who reject the idea of intellectual compartmentalization.
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A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
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I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I'll go into my office or whatever. But that goes from format to format.
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When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.
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Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.
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If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources.
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What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.
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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
