Witold Gombrowicz Quotes
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I know that when I get stressed, I want to eat junk food. So now I just know - 'I'm stressed, I want to eat junk food, so I'm going to go work out instead, or eat something healthy.' It really works.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'
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You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
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'If you are prepared to die, you are prepared to live.'
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I always tell people that I am most proud of the fact that the Ushahidi story has provided an inspiration to other techies in Kenya and Africa as an example of the kind of talent the continent holds.
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If I could wave a magic wand, I would be a size 6 and still be able to eat cake every day.
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A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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I went to UC Davis because I wanted to be a vet. It's a great profession if it's right for you, but it's memorizing the bones and the muscles, and I am terrible at stuff like that. Also, there's a lot of blood and gore involved.
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We want 'McMafia' to be a tense gangster story but also a family story. It's a collusion of those two worlds.
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A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock.
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There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
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The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
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Judges ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.
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You don’t have to beg God; you just have to act upon His Word.
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Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code - a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren't any right people.
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The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).
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Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.
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I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
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For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity. One should go to the circus, beyond any question of fashion, at least one or two times a year-I am not speaking here to the real enthusiasts, they know better than I what they have to do.
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Anyone who has raised more than one child knows full well that kids turn out the way they turn out - astonishingly, for the most part, and usually quite unlike their siblings, even their twins, raised under the same flawed rooftree. Little we have done or said, or left undone and unsaid, seems to have made much mark. It's hubris to suppose ourselves so influential; a casual remark on the playground is as likely to change their lives as any dedicated campaign of ours. They come with much of their own software already in place, waiting, and none of the keys we press will override it.
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Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.
