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.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
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.
Wayne Dyer -
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim -
I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
Jack Whitehall -
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.
Beck -
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
Abraham Maslow
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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.
Becky G -
I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
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
Nancy Pelosi -
'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.'
C. S. Lewis -
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.
Jack Vance -
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...
Karl Jaspers
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He never went very far astray in his official business, because he always obeyed the clerks and followed precedents.
Anthony Trollope -
On Las Vegas audiences Those audiences are wonderful. Talk about the most bitter group of people on the planet Earth! For one brief shining moment, I am Mr. Happy!
Lewis Black -
I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.
Keri Smith -
We believe that African football is among the best in the world and very much characterized the Puma brand mentality, which is to win.
Jochen Zeitz -
I have always been a workaholic.
Jewel Kilcher
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There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.
Jim Hodges -
It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.
C. S. Lewis -
death ... so seldom happens nowadays in the awesome quiet of a familiar chamber. Most of us die violently, thanks to the advance of science and warfare. If by chance we are meant to end life in our beds, we are whisked like pox victims to the nearest hospital, where we are kept as alone and unaware as possible of the approach of disintegration.
M. F. K. Fisher -
I had no business trying to see you leave, see death arrive, I owe you an apology, an elegy, I owe you the drift of memory, the praise of everything, of saying it was the best decision of my life, to hold you full, hold you empty, & live as the only bond between the two.
Bob Hicok -
The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec