Lech Walesa Quotes
People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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Anyone can look beautiful.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'
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We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.
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I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
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There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.
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People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders.
