Alfred Polgar Quotes
It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.
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As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
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We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
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I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!
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All that matters is to help the team.
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Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.
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Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.
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The tone in which an Englishman expresses anger would, in Italy, be only a mark of surprise.
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The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.
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I graduated from the University of Whatever.
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Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.
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Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was.
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A foreign government has more say over Northern Ireland than the people of Northern Ireland.
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If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and suddenly introduce order where the appearance of disorder reigned.
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Being a part of independent-film world, the independent-film community, that's what you do. You support each other. If someone's doing a movie and you trust them, you roll the dice. Sometimes it's gonna be good, sometimes it's gonna be something that's like, "Oh I don't know what the hell that is." But I've been more fortunate than not to have it work well.
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It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.
