Wladyslaw Bartoszewski Quotes
Poland didn't experience a groundbreaking moment in 1989. We didn't storm the secret police building. The squads of secret police, with all their political baggage, remained unscathed.
Quotes to Explore
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I think long-term, Bitcoin is a currency of the Internet. So, even if humans don't use it, routers will use it. Web browsers will use it. Web servers will use it.
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The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
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I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
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If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.
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Ninety-nine people out of a hundred have not seriously considered what they mean by the term 'exist' nor how a thing qualifies itself to be labelled real.
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Oh, but you know, you do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.
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There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.
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I think in 'No Burden' there was a lot of positivity on the record.
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Without net neutrality protections, the Internet would no longer be a free and open ecosystem for innovation.
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I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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There was a time when people liked to take Shakespeare and twist him around to make whatever social or political statement they wanted to make.
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Poland didn't experience a groundbreaking moment in 1989. We didn't storm the secret police building. The squads of secret police, with all their political baggage, remained unscathed.
