Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
Pat Robertson
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
Eavan Boland
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
Vern Buchanan
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
Hans Berger
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
Ferdinand Mount
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Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs.
Gary Miller
Bad Brains
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With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.
Larry Bishop
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The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
Ted Sarandos
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Isaac Asimov
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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
Oscar Wilde
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This is a medical service. It always was.
Jack Kevorkian
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Whenever I hear you saying, rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!
Orson Scott Card
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Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.
Kin Hubbard
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
Aristophanes
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Above all, he wanted to stop being a child without using the cheap disguise of becoming a parent.
Edward St Aubyn
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This economy is not getting better and the president's policies are the reason.
Jim Talent
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What I realized on the 'Grasshopper' was that I wasn't sure that I liked being in every shot. It wasn't fun.
Jacqueline Bisset
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New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.
Joanna Southcott
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We, in the New York Times, have not yet figured out how to grow our international readership. We started a website in China, which the Chinese government has blocked, but it has a pretty healthy readership. The Guardian, for instance, has gotten tremendous growth through its website in the US. We have to figure out how to go after readership in different parts of the world.
Dean Baquet
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My definition of gender expands beyond just two genders.
Andy Dunn
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In investing, we intuitively think we should make a number of small bets. A blockbuster strategy is the opposite. It means making fewer huge investments. But it turns out to be safer.
Anita Elberse
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I've always felt like an outsider, and I'll probably continue to always feel like an outsider. Hopefully that's a good thing. I feel like I approach things differently than other designers.
Jeremy Scott
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I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.
E. B. White
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Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
