Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.
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When you're working with your friends, it doesn't feel like it's work.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
