Lech Walesa Quotes
I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.Lech Walesa
Quotes to Explore
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
Naveen Jain -
Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
Edith Piaf -
I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
Harold Prince -
If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
Olivia De Havilland -
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
Ed Miliband -
I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
J. Michael Straczynski
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
Beck Bennett -
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
Abel Ferrara -
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson -
I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
Octavia Spencer -
I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.
Pastor Maldonado -
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
Nancy Gibbs
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
Dan Butler -
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
Queen Elizabeth II -
I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
Laura Trott -
I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
Karen Robards -
We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
Indra Devi -
Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!
Karen Salmansohn
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We finally understand in general terms how a cell is organized, how its specialized organs function in a well integrated manner to insure its survival and replication.
George Emil Palade -
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
Leon Trotsky -
Altered social conditions may remove certain ailments and deformities in existing society. But the new and more beautiful society will not be formed exclusively - or even mainly - by improved conditions, but above all by more perfect human beings.
Ellen Key -
Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.
Rachel Caine -
You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.
Andre Agassi -
I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
Lech Walesa