Andrzej Stasiuk Quotes
It drew us, because life is made of bits of the present that stay in the mind. The world itself, really, is made of that.Andrzej Stasiuk
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
Gary Lineker -
Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
Walter O'Brien -
I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
Aaron Sorkin -
Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
Hafez -
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
Queen Latifah -
The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
Samantha Morton
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I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
Vijay Mallya -
The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
Val McDermid -
I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
Mahesh Babu -
I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Even as a kid, I would always imagine horrible circumstances in which I would find myself in my head, and imagine how I would feel, and act it out a bit for myself, because I was a bit of a freak like that. I love doing things like that, and I get a real buzz from it afterwards.
Laura Fraser -
What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
Walter Isaacson
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I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.
Ferdinand Marcos -
Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'
Mallory Ortberg -
Our government shouldn’t make promises we cannot keep – but we must keep the promises we’ve already made.
Barack Obama -
Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
Samuel Johnson -
I was joined by Carlo Rovelli, and we were able to make a full-fledged quantum theory of gravity... This became loop quantum gravity.
Lee Smolin
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Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.
Derrick Jensen -
The principle of utility judges any action to be right by the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interests are in question... if that party be the community the happiness of the community, if a particular individual, the happiness of that individual.
Jeremy Bentham -
There are so many of these young-adult movies with these cold guys who act like jerks to girls but are hiding soft sentiments. But in the real world most guys who act like jerks are jerks. Generally they are. I spent a lot of high school thinking that horrible guys must be very sensitive and interesting and it's not true.
Alice Englert -
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
Daniel Kahneman -
I'm in a television program that is always among the top 20, that's shown in 67 countries in the world, helping lobotomize the entire world.
Lionel Stander -
It drew us, because life is made of bits of the present that stay in the mind. The world itself, really, is made of that.
Andrzej Stasiuk