Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
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For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
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Shakespeare is universal.
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.
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Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.
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I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.
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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
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A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.
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As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every citizen to participate in this government in any way we can.
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I was so sensitive and touchy in a way that my character would never be. I was so protective and defensive of young girls, and sex in general.
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Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.
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We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to not bothering our pretty little heads without even being told not to! The suffragettes struggled and suffered so much on our behalf; what a travesty of everything they stood for, if we simply look away as though we can't be bothered.
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No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.
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A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
