Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
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A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.
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Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
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I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.
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I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
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At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.
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My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.
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I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.
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I can't say enough about 'OLTL's' strong cast.
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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.
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In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.
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I wonder why I write about these things. As if I didn't know them! Why do I tell myself in writing what I already so well know? Don't I know about the mountain, and the brimming cup of blue light? It is because, I suppose, it's lonely to stay inside oneself. One has to come out and talk. And if there is no one to talk to one imagines someone, as though one were writing a letter to somebody who loves one, and who will want to know, with the sweet eagerness and solicitude of love, what one does and what the place one is in looks like. It makes one feel less lonely to think like this,—to write it down, as if to one's friend who cares. For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die.
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Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountain and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life.
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In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'
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In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
