Alfred Polgar Quotes
It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?

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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.
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'The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires...'
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To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.
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Because men complained less, we made the false assumption that the complaints women experienced were only women’s complaints and, therefore, only women’s problems. Which created the rationale for women’s problems to be solved – or at least addressed – by public policy.
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: No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.
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Every time he makes plans for his future, he seems to fail. Every time he reaches forward, the world leans against him, pressing him down.
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Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
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Knowing now what we have learned, unless the need were urgent, I could no more sink the blade of an ax into the tissues of a living tree than I could drive it into the flesh of a fellow human.
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This is your baby. Go do it.
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We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves.
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I've played for a lot of tough crowds.
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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The body cannot produce enzymes in perfect combinations to metabolize your foods as completely as the food enzymes created by nature do. This results in partially digested fats, proteins, and starches that can clog your body's intestinal tract and arteries.
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I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.
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I've had one fall that I kind of hurt my toe pretty badly because I slammed into one of the set pieces. But, you know, you just get up and keep going. The adrenaline's pumping, and you just carry on!
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The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.
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It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?