Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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America is a meritocracy.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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I love big summer dresses, and it sucks because I'm such a little person, so I always have to be very specific about which ones I put on.
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I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.
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I didn't know you were Catholic. (to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as he got down on one knee to beg Pelosi to find Democratic support for the bailout bill)-2008
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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'And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.'
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process...
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He never went very far astray in his official business, because he always obeyed the clerks and followed precedents.
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We do not argue with the critic who urges that the stars are not hot enough for this process; we tell him to go and find a hotter place.
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... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them - not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.
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I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.
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God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil.
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Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
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The first requisite for immortality is death.
