Ignacy Jan Paderewski Quotes
I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.
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We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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The offseason is when you try to gain strength. You have 162 games during the year, so you've got to pick and choose the times work out.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
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I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
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I ask you to remember that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible.
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I have one quote I very often read to myself, from a very good friend: 'Forget the people around you now; remember the little boy who was racing in go-karts, what you were dreaming of and what he wanted to achieve one day and what was his goal. Race for him.'. I fell in love with the sport, I love racing. The amount of satisfaction I get just going around in a Formula 1 car makes me smile. So if it is a bad day then you tend to come out and say it's horrible and you don't enjoy. But if you had to pick between that and doing nothing, you would always pick that.
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What is not OK is for rent-seekers to get rich.
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I once dated a guy who was like, 'Holy sh--, I just made out with Harriet the Spy!' And that's messed up. Don't say that. I was 10, you're 30, it's just weird.
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I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.
