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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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 got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.
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Jesus is the Son of God, we have a chance for God's blessings, God's salvation through our faith in Jesus Christ and all of us are sinners who fall short of the glory of God, and the wages of sin is death but through our faith that Jesus Christ, we can be saved.
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
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When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.
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A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.
