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 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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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.
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I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.
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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 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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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.
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I'm not a crybaby.
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I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.
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When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven't been to one in 25 years, and yet, I once saw Donald Trump from behind in an office building and the first thing that flashed in my mind was his hair looked like that onion loaf.
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Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.
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I am confident that Jeff Sessions will do his part to restore the delicate balance between the states and the federal government that the Founders envisioned.
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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.
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When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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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
