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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: polish
Birth: March 6, 1909 - May 7, 1966

Topics

Death First Immortality Requisite

I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all had to stop. People do come up to you so often and say hello, or want a photograph, and I just can't do it anymore in what I used to wear. They don't want to be seen hanging off a rabid old granny any more than I do.

People You Stop Go Want Nothing

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Knowledge Ignorance Man Search Take

In 1985, the Iranian sponsorship of terrorism was clear, solid evidence.

Robert McFarlane

Terrorism Evidence Clear Sponsorship

Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.

Matthew Desmond

Crisis Worst Decade Nation Almost

You don't have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends and come through when it really matters. I think everyone can sort of relate to that in some way, particularly back to people's school days.

Hero School People Think Help You

I'm not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. There's good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

Work Good Good Work You Know Want

My life is not as dramatic as it is depicted in the shows. I am not at all submissive. I am free-spirited.

Life I Am My Life Submissive Shows

With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method.

Economics World Award Special Within

It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.

New President Resolve Presidency Who

I think so often about how, when I was starting out at UCB, Conan O'Brien was in town, and on his show back then, they sometimes did character bits, and I started getting paid to dress up as a page or a Dutch boy on his show.

Character Dress Think Back Sometimes

I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.

Christine Lagarde

France Brutally Praised Criticized

Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.

Belonging Always Driver Been

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