Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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To me, it's always about quality not quantity.
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I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.
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Now I'm looking for more of a dressy, man wear, you know, kinda cool.
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Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.
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I have always abhorred the word 'racism.' I never use it.
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Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.
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Misbah is rated far higher outside Pakistan than within. Afridi is rated far higher in Pakistan than outside!
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Cooking is an expression that crosses boundaries.
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God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar. Our desire to develop and use every ounce of potential He's placed in us is not egotistical. He designed us to be tremendously productive and "to mount up with wings like eagles," realistically dreaming of what He can do with our potential.
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There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be and it's so much easier to accumulate a ton of footage, that then you can just go shoot a ton of footage and the editor will make sense out of it. But if you don't have something deliberate made, you're not gonna save it in the editing room.
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Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.
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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
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Living in the moment means entrance and exit are simultaneous- the moment is now. Zen saying... works!
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The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we reach adulthood, we are closed and set in our attitudes. The chances of a poet reaching us are very slim. But I can open a child's imagination, develop his appetite for poetry, and more importantly, show him that poetry is a natural part of everyday life. We all need someone to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. That's the poet's job.
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I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.
