Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Quotes to Explore
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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Making music is fantastic.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always go out and buy stuff. He has his own style and I have my own style, but it's a shared thing. Same thing with my grandfather; he was really into his style, so it's just sort of been passed down, I think.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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Synchronicities, epiphanies, peak, and mystical experiences are all cases in which creativity breaks through the barriers of the self and allows awareness to flood through the whole domain of consciousness. It is the human mind operating, for a moment, in its true order and moving through orders of increasing subtlety, reaching past the source of mind and matter into creativity itself.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise in science or agronomy to write optimal planting strategies for maize in the local language.
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I love that time when all you want to do is cocoon with your baby in your own little world, when you carry them around all the time in a little pouch or sling.
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Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
