Witold Pilecki Quotes

During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million.

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• If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Brother
  • Year
  • Filmmaker

• I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Different
  • American
  • Lost

• I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • May
  • Training

• As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Long
  • Book

• I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Done
  • Art
  • Today

• I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Business
  • Book
  • Influence

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Journey

• I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Vacation

• Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Most

• Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Good
  • Love
  • High

• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Woman
  • Catholic
  • Mathematics

• I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Great
  • Me
  • Wind

• The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Done
  • Night
  • Action

• I'm quite surprised that nobody has asked me to do my own line of tweezers. I totally would love to do that. Or, like, mascara. Cara's Mascara!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like
  • Surprised
  • Quite

• I found 'Celebrity Gangster' intense, dramatic, a real page turner.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Real
  • Celebrity
  • Page

• I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Business
  • End
  • Corruption

• My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Actions
  • Democratic
  • Tastes

• I love artists whose work feels animated! Matt Cummings, Ian McGinty, Jake Myler, Arielle Jovellanos, Drew Rausch, Zachary Sterling, Troy Little - I feel like most of the artists I've worked with have a lot of movement and life in their work.

  

  Kate Leth
  • Life
  • Work

• A people decides its own destiny.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • People
  • Destiny

• Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• As long as you know yourself and you got good people around you and you passionate about what you do, that's all that matters because at the end of the day, you go to sleep with the people you love, you wake up with the people you love, and you spend your time with the people you love.

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million.

  

  Witold Pilecki
  • People
  • During
  • Auschwitz