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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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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The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.
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The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.
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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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All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.
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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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If I'm working, I'm not D.J.'ing. And if I'm not working, I'm D.J.'ing all the time.
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As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.
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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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No one seriously believes that cutting the minimum wage is good for workers.
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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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All is ask is that I get a heads up as soon as possible so I can lose this weight before I have to see people again.
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I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.
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I find music the the clearest and easiest way in to what a movie will feel like - more so than visual references or other movies or dense dossiers of research material. Every now and then I'll send a piece of music or two to people I'm working with - actors or heads of department - when I think it'll help them get a sense of the kind of movie I'm proposing. Often those pieces will end up in the movie - sometimes they won't.
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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
