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.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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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.
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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.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
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Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.
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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.
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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.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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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!
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I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.
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Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'
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The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.
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I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.
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Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.
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During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million.
