Wladyslaw Szpilman Quotes
“Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.”
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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I think that what we do out on the field is oftentimes a little bit better than what men do. I don't think that we flop around as much. I think we're tough. I mean, I've got battle wounds on my legs from the turf and sliding. And we're gritty. And we're feisty. And I think that I would never back down from a guy.
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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
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I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.
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I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.
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You go through slumps in this game, and you just have to work through them. You're going to miss putts out on an LPGA tour and have bad rounds. You just have to think to yourself that you always have tomorrow, and you're lucky enough to be out here just playing golf for a living.
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Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.
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I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.
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If they think I'm better at commentating than I was as a player, then I must be pretty darned good at commentating.
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I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.
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“Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.”
