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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'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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Luiheid mag aantrekkelijk schijnen, werken geeft bevrediging.
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Liberals in blue states just think that they are on the right side of history, and anybody that disagrees with them has to be a troglodyte or a neanderthal.
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We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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The first requisite for immortality is death.
