Adam Michnik Quotes

Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.

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• During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

  

  Kate Smith
  • God
  • America
  • Presidential

• The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Important
  • History
  • America

• I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Future
  • Say
  • United States

• I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Animals

• I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Process
  • United States
  • Oil

• I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • God
  • America
  • Doubt

• I would like to do something to help people and help the world.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • World
  • Help

• America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • America
  • Education

• Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Love
  • Energy
  • For Her

• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Mind
  • Help
  • Die

• My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • America
  • Dad
  • Childhood

• I strive to create new opportunities in terms of partnerships and new works being presented and things you haven't seen anywhere else. Also to help you see old things in ways you haven't seen them before.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Help
  • Opportunities
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• There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Up
  • America
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• The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Time
  • America
  • Change

• America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • America
  • Pot
  • Melting Pot

• I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • America
  • Society
  • Proud

• With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Work
  • American
  • America

• I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.

  

  Jamaica Kincaid
  • Up
  • Work
  • Family

• You can never plan the future by the past.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Future
  • Past
  • Plan

• There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.

  

  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
  • Time
  • Action
  • Doubt

• Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • America
  • Help
  • United States