Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.
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Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong.
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I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is write about things you're not into.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
