John Charles Polanyi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
-
My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
-
More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
-
You want your coach's blessing.
-
I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
-
It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
-
I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
-
I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
-
You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.
-
The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
-
With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.
-
And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
-
Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
-
I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
-
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
-
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
-
I just want to be at peace with myself, personally and professionally. I want to lead my life the way I want to without having to worry about what the other person may be thinking. Professionally again, I would like to be able to just do films that I want to without having to explain my reasons to my friends, family and fans.
-
If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.
-
I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.
-
The objective is to do things well in London.
-
Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
-
All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.
-
It should be a firmly established part of the curriculum that children should visit theatres and concert halls.
-
In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
