Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.
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Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
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I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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I don't order laws, I propose them.
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I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do.
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You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.
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A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'.
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Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.
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Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
