Adam Mickiewicz Quotes
My heart stopped, my breast frozen, my lips and eyes barred. Still in the world, but not of the world. Here, yet already departed.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.
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I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'
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As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
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You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
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It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the 'cooler,' and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.
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I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.
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Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?
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The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. The opposite of a Greek drama. Act one: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act two: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act three: Greed and hypocrisy … I don't dare continue.
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Natura d'ogni cosa più possente.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault - they watched the foot come towards their face.
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There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate.
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We just try to find stories that are interesting to us.
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He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
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I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
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My heart stopped, my breast frozen, my lips and eyes barred. Still in the world, but not of the world. Here, yet already departed.
