Wladyslaw Szpilman Quotes
“Lying is the worst of all evils. Everything else that is diabolical comes from it.”
Quotes to Explore
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.
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The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere.
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We were trailing at the three mile point. The guys picked it up in the last two miles and we were able to pull it off.
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People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now.
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I just think there's always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life of a person that's playing a character, then surprises happen and are allowed to happen, and so it makes it more interesting.
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All you gotta do is think of the song in your head. And it doesn't matter whether you can play it or not, you can get somebody to play it. With songs I've written, there's a song called "The Statue", which I can't play. There are songs that I've written that I've actually just hummed on - there's a song on one of the albums they have there on the Internet called "My Love Was True" and it's almost operatic. I can't play it. But I can sing it.
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Well I have a drug history and a public drinking problem and I am not the healthiest guy. So they just ran that I died of a drug overdose.
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It's a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics.
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No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth.
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We have the same soul at 60 that we had at 40, and the same soul at 25 that we had when we were 5.
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I think it's important for us to believe in one another's capabilities. If I didn't have someone to believe in me, I wouldn't be the individual I am today. Neither would I strive for new territory or new direction or to believe in myself.
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I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives.
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I think one of my biggest strengths overall is staying in the moment.
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If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.
