Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
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If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
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I'm on a search for the truth.
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I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike powerless before the advance of the Assyrians, that magical superstitions based on mere terror, or rites designed to conciliate alien gods, invade the sphere of tribal or national religion. In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.
