Edmond Bordeaux Szekely Quotes
Our adaptation to the natural forces is a question of existence or non-existence. We cannot transform the universe or nature so that they adapt themselves to us; on the contrary, we must adapt ourselves to nature and her laws.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
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'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched.
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'I just got shot in the ass with an infected load of semen! Who's the smart-ass?'
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Bubbles! Oh come on Sharon! I'm fucking Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of fucking Darkness. Evil! Evil! What's fucking evil about a buttload of fucking bubbles!?
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I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.
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'Is there anyone in Chasm City she hasn’t deceived?''Possibly, somewhere, but only as an extreme theoretical possibility.'
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I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.
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I don't say in the morning, 'Look, Leandra, here are a bunch of women. Put that bronzer down.' It's more that I'm busy and whatever helps you get out the door and go to sleep easier.
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Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
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In our travels, we have come across many equations - math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won’t even need a pencil.
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Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.
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Our adaptation to the natural forces is a question of existence or non-existence. We cannot transform the universe or nature so that they adapt themselves to us; on the contrary, we must adapt ourselves to nature and her laws.
