Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Are you satisfied with where you are and the direction you are going? If not, take control of your life and change whatever needs to be changed. You and only you have the power to do this. You can change your world!
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.
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Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.
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A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world.
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We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
