Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equalStanislaw Jerzy Lec
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
Tamsin Egerton -
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
Oliver Cromwell -
I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
Sally Schneider -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
Wendell Berry
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I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.
Beck -
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
Quintilian -
I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.
Harold E. Varmus -
Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.
Donald Trump -
As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.
Kim Novak -
I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.
Daniel Tammet
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I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.
David LaChapelle -
To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.
James Carville -
Charlestoning is hard. People were fit in the '20s to be able to do that. I guess they didn't sit in front of their computers all day.
Elizabeth Debicki -
I work, play and do everything in French.
Philippe Falardeau -
I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.
Martha Stewart -
I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more.
Clara Hughes
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I am always a different man; a reinterpretation of the man I was yesterday.
K. J. Bishop -
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
William Manchester -
Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
Salman Rushdie -
I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.
Gwen Stefani No Doubt -
Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec