Alfred Polgar Quotes

It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

Alfred Polgar

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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!

  

  Alan Cumming
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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.

  

  Thomas Nagel
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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.

  

  Noel Tichy
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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.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Lost
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• I graduated from the University of Whatever.

  

  Dana Snyder
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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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
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• Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.

  

  Ralph Ransom
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  • Goal
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• It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Policy
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• This is the western world; if somebody can make a buck, they're going to try to do it.

  

  Michael Rosbash
  • World
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• It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

  

  Alfred Polgar
  • Foreign
  • Homeland
  • Emigrant