Wojciech Jaruzelski Quotes

It was a stupid political act ... today I deeply regret it but at the time I could not act otherwise. It was a political decision

Wojciech Jaruzelski

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• They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Long
  • Bad

• When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Myself
  • Hair
  • Look

• Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Energy
  • Loss

• Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • Game
  • Color

• Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Musical
  • Directions
  • Remind

• I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Time
  • World
  • Team

• When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Nice

• With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is more a director's medium, because that's who controls the final feel of the film.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Character
  • Think
  • Nature

• And I may add that it taught me something about the limitations of the small . . . orthodox scientist who won't recognize as knowledge, or as reality, any information that doesn't fit into the already existent science.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Science
  • Reality

• All things are the same,-familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Endurance

• We have to care about our bodies and what we put in them. Women have to take the time to focus on our mental health-take time for self, for the spiritual, without feeling guilty or selfish. The world will see you the way you see you, and treat you the way you treat yourself.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

  

  Kathryn Harrison

• I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Time
  • World

• A robust democracy requires active participation.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Democracy

• I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm on an airplane - I have a fear of flying, but I actually love flying because it's the only time I can sleep, and it's the only time I get to read.

  

  Kesha
  • Time
  • Book
  • Fear

• I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates.

  

  LeBron James
  • Guy

• Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • World
  • Real
  • Childhood

• Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?

  

  Black Kettle
  • Why

• It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.

  

  Antonin Dvorak
  • Art
  • American
  • Beginning

• In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.

  

  Chris Diamantopoulos
  • Great
  • Shoes
  • Shine

• There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Done
  • Book
  • Feminist

• Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president.

  

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
  • Stupid
  • President
  • Clever

• It was a stupid political act ... today I deeply regret it but at the time I could not act otherwise. It was a political decision

  

  Wojciech Jaruzelski
  • Political
  • Decision
  • Stupid