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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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 Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.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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Getting an agent is hard, and I also think people rush to get an agent too soon.
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I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.
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Read everything you can get your hands on: Programme your mind to read all the time and everywhere - even in the bathroom; skim through the lines printed on the back of shampoo bottles and sanitary napkin packets.
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When Ma died, I didn't know how to go on, either. I don't know how. I don't feel the same know, not exactly. Now that I see that one day comes after another and you get through them one measure at a time. But I'd like to go, not like Fonda Nye, I don't want to die, I just want to go, away, out of the dust.
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In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.
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A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.
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Only in marriage do love and time, eternal enemies, join forces.
