Andrzej Stasiuk Quotes
The future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that only what is, and what was, exists. The rest does not, because no one ever saw it or touched it.Andrzej Stasiuk
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
Fatema Mernissi -
I'm not a psychiatrist.
Quincy Jones -
I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
Mandy Patinkin -
Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
Ted McGinley -
If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
Natasha Lyonne -
I don't like controversy.
Sammy Sosa
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
Barbara Smith -
Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
Zachary Levi -
The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
Sam Yagan -
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
J. L. Austin -
Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
E. Y. Harburg -
When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.
Facundo Pieres
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
Gary Cole -
Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
Malcolm Fraser -
A heart makes a good home for the friend.
Yunus Emre -
I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!
Halle Berry -
If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
Walter Lord
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We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge. The management science team can properly analyse a situation and present recommendations to the manager, but no change occurs. The situation is so familiar to those of us who try to practice management science that I hardly need to describe the cases.
Charles West Churchman -
Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
Tammy Bruce -
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss -
When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
Patricia Briggs -
The future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that only what is, and what was, exists. The rest does not, because no one ever saw it or touched it.
Andrzej Stasiuk