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 equal

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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.

  

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• I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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
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• I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
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• 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.

  

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• As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

  

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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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• To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.

  

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• 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.

  

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• I work, play and do everything in French.

  

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• Kevin Garnett was a great player, but he wasn't Kobe Bryant.

  

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• 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.

  

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• My favorite book is 'Million-Dollar Throw.' It's about football, which is one of the main things I like watching and reading about.

  

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• My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

  

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• We'd had three tough losses in a row and everybody was down. I think our players said to themselves: 'Our backs are up against the wall and we've got no other option other than just to win, and if we lose another game we're probably out.' So they kind of took it as this last stand, and it was that way every week . . .somehow we found a way to win those last five.

  

  Joe Gibbs
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• As I've said many times, the nuclear deal was never intended to resolve all of our differences with Iran. But still, engaging directly with the Iranian government on a sustained basis for the first time in decades has created a unique opportunity, a window, to try to resolve important issues.

  

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• Sometimes I forget that I'm supposed to keep people entertained because I'm just making music for my lifestyle and for my people who live my lifestyle. We forget that there's a world waiting on us.

  

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• 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
  • Trying
  • Equal
  • Giants