Adam Michnik Quotes
I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.Adam Michnik
Quotes to Explore
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
Nancy Sinatra -
Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
Salman Rushdie -
I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
Owain Yeoman -
I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
Naomie Harris -
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
Pat Barker -
My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
Ori Gersht
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
Yann Martel -
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
Paracelsus -
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan -
Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.
Gail Kelly -
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy -
We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.
Carlos Alazraqui
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By 1988, I was living in New York myself.
Ira Sachs -
My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.
Warwick Davis -
Good material is good material.
J. K. Simmons -
No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.
Hank Ketcham -
A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.
Laura Wasser -
If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
P. J. O'Rourke
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I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that.
Bruce Babbitt -
My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
Pat Conroy -
I think if you have too much fear, you're never going to break ground or develop.
David Slade -
Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
Ian McShane -
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.
Adam Michnik