Zygmunt Bauman Quotes
As Christopher Marlowe’s Faust learned the hard way, wishing for a moment of bliss to say 'the same' indefinitely is guaranteed to procure indefinite commitment to hell instead of indefinite happiness. … A state of rest would not be a state of happiness but of boredom.Zygmunt Bauman
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson -
It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
Yogi Berra -
I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
Bebe Rexha -
I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
Jackie Collins -
Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
T. B. Joshua -
Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
L'Wren Scott -
The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
Lafcadio Hearn -
The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
Viktor Orban -
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman -
Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
Kate Hudson
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I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
K. A. Applegate -
Over time, we amass limiting beliefs about how life supposedly is - beliefs that are not valid. Then we allow these limiting beliefs to stop us from fully living our happiest lives.
Karen Salmansohn -
We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.
Walter F. Ulmer -
In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.
Caity Lotz -
I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
Yuri Milner -
And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.
Cameron Crowe
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I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.
Dana Brunetti -
I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was intense. I moved my wife, and we had two children back to back. So working those hours and living abroad in L.A. was a handful. But it was a great experience.
Damian Lewis -
The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.
Linda Blair -
Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.
Michelangelo -
I just can’t believe anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can’t believe it.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
As Christopher Marlowe’s Faust learned the hard way, wishing for a moment of bliss to say 'the same' indefinitely is guaranteed to procure indefinite commitment to hell instead of indefinite happiness. … A state of rest would not be a state of happiness but of boredom.
Zygmunt Bauman