Wladyslaw Szpilman Quotes
“It's a disgrace to us all! he almost screamed. 'We're letting them take us to our death like sheep to the slaughter!.....at least we could break out of the ghetto, or at least die honourably, not as a stain on the face of history!”
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you - All Of You - have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans.
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Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.
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We'll look after our hospitals. We'll look after our schools. We'll look after our infrastructure.
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I like everybody at 'Criminal Minds.' I would like to guest star, but I don't know if that is in the cards.
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In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.
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The double bind lowers its boom on women in positions of authority, so those who haven't yet risen to such positions have not yet felt its full weight.
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Tunisian liberals say that the U.S. Embassy in Tunis is unengaged with their efforts to make sure the Tunisian model remains one of expanding freedom.
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“It's a disgrace to us all! he almost screamed. 'We're letting them take us to our death like sheep to the slaughter!.....at least we could break out of the ghetto, or at least die honourably, not as a stain on the face of history!”
