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.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Different
  • Play
  • Actor

• We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Made
  • Three
  • Facebook

• 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
  • Life
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• All that matters is to help the team.

  

  Neymar
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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
  • Action
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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
  • Problem
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• The tone in which an Englishman expresses anger would, in Italy, be only a mark of surprise.

  

  Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
  • Anger
  • Surprise
  • Englishman

• 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
  • Eyes
  • Focus

• I graduated from the University of Whatever.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • University
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• I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
  • Happiness
  • Learned
  • Surprised

• I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Wilfred Bion
  • Result
  • Elements
  • Appearance

• There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

  

  Richard Lugar
  • Policy
  • Commit
  • Foreign

• 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