Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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Intentions count in your actions.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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Meditation, like masturbation, has until recently been considered a form of self-abuse.
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We are like figures which some great demonstrator draws upon the blackboard of Time. A problem is to be solved, without doubt; what the problem is, we, the figures, cannot know and do not need to know; all we know is that sooner or later we shall be sponged off the board and other figures take our places, and the demonstration go on.
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The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.
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I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It's a battle for me, as far as weight and things like that. But I'm curbing them because I want to continue to do comedy, and the two don't mix. So I try to fight those demons.
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To go through the agonizing process of learning how to walk again and write again and speak again makes you much more empathetic to people.
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You hire well and just make sure you have enough runway for everyone to grow in the company's success. It creates loyalty and opportunity, really.
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I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.
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When my parents got divorced, I wanted to spend my time laying in the garage listening to the washer and dryer. Loud, immersive, changing. It was music to me.
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A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.
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The calmest part of my day is right before a match.
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I have always loved maps.
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When given the opportunity to fail myself or fail someone else, I choose to fail myself.
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Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that's a costly investment in your health. But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don't make those investments.
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The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides again, having permitted himself the illusion of unity for barely an instant. He divides and then reunites.
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I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
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Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.
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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
