Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.
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We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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Indeed, it is not too much to say that the normal relation of States is war.
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All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
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A true nation is held together not by any political creed but by patriotism.... For two centuries, men have died for America.
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Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.
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The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.
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There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.
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I have the softest beard in the world. As far as growing it, it doesn't itch, and it's so non-intrusive. But, I am so sick of hair on my face and on my head. Because I'm not a really hairy guy, I'm not really used to it.
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My feeling is that if you can cook, I can teach you how to do television.
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The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.
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I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.
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The story you choose to tell isn't always the story you believe.
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Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.
