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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They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.
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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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Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.
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Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
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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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I wash my hair once a week. If it gets stinky in between, I just dry-shampoo it.
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I am certain that if I have any merit, it is knowing how to make good use of my eyes, to guide the camera in its task of capturing not only colors, lights and shadows, but the movement of life itself.
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Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.
