Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
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On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
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It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
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White America is in the minority.
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You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.
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We all are so serious when we are younger.
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I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.
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I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy.
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I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.
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What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
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Research shows that if patients believe they are taking the real drug, they are more confident of improving and, so, improve even if they are actually on the placebo. Conversely, if they suspect they are taking the placebo, their expectancy of improvement declines, and so does their improvement.
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Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.
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Little children require their parent's unqualified love in order to survive and feel secure. Very soon, however, they need a tempered version of that devotion- parents who can give them the freedom to fail or feel sorrow or taste frustration, to fully experience their own pain and pleasure and learn from them. Therapists call this phenomenon "ownership".
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I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.
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I realized that it's my own fault that people take advantage of me. I should be around people who cherish my talents, my health, my time. I'm not a pawn for anyone's future business. I'm an artist. I deserve better than to be loyal to people who only believe in me because I make money.
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In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
