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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Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
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One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home.
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The special relationship between twins is that, if there's anyone else in the world that's going to get or be the confidant that you need, it's an identical twin.
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Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
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hope and uncertainty are the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.
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Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.
