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 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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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 would love to have a song that I wrote by myself to win a 'Song of the Year' award.
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Short ribs in the middle of a hamburger? That was pretty groundbreaking.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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My sister could fall asleep at the drop of a hat. She would fall asleep on the train. Me, I never slept. Still. I have a hard time sleeping. But I used to admire her ability to wake up late.
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Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.
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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
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Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
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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?
