Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.
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I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
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I used to feel like the world was mine but now it feels like I’m fallin’ behind.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
