Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
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We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
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I usually start my day with a light breakfast of fruit and eggs and take granola bars with me to eat after practice. Lunch and dinner usually consist of chicken over pasta or rice and beans.
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Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.
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I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.
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I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years.
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A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.
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It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New York. I thoroughly detest New York, though I have to go there very often.... Have you ever noticed that no American writer of any consequence lives in Manhattan? Dreiser tried it (after many years in the Bronx), but finally moved to California.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
