Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.
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America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
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Me and Jesus are cool. I'm cool with all the gods. Gods recognize gods.
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'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours,And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
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Don't worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you're weird are what makes you you, and therefore your greatest strength.
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It's been cool to catch up, but I think I'm done with my exes. To be honest, I went out with flying colors on the majority of them.
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Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.
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I like to get the body temperature up, the heart rate up. I'll do anywhere from 10 to 25 minutes either on a bike, a rower, a StairMaster, or a combination of the three of those. And then I'll normally run through a 20- to 30-minute session either on the Pilates reformer, the Cadillac, or the Pilates chair.
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I'm a very firm believer in karma, and put it this way: I get a lot of good parking spots.
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I owe a lot to my time on 'House of Cards' because, up until I booked that show, I had been working consistently for 12 years, but I wasn't working on anything that mattered in the way 'House of Cards' did to its audience, to casting directors, to directors and producers. The show hit this sweet spot.
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When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.
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Those sound like the three best answers I've ever heard on this show even though it's the first ever of this show!
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A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.
