Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.
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In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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We know the fans love us to death, and the people that hear out music love our music.
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We're homebodies. I've gotten to see my kids' first steps, first smiles, first words. Every day is a weekend.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
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What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
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Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
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Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.
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I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature.
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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
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'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched.
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Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.
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Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.
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We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.
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Only in marriage do love and time, eternal enemies, join forces.
