Anna Kamienska Quotes
My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.
Quotes to Explore
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
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Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
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I usually get home from dance at 10 every night, and I'll watch TV for about 30 minutes, and then I'll go to bed.
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All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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… the Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws - the first growing out of the last... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
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A prima descendit origine mundicausarum series.
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I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.
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I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.
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Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
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I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.
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Airbnb started with 'air bed and breakfast.'
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The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou.
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Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.
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Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.
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I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.
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I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.
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My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.
