Abraham Polonsky Quotes
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.
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In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a 'whisper' is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife's ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret.
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Dispatch is the soul of business.
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You want to empower people who think like you do.
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What do you mean 'gangsters'? It's business.
