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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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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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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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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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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My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
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I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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One of the most difficult parts of 'The Trans List' was coming up with a list of 11 people. For me, what was important was to ensure that we were as diverse as possible across a lot of different intersections.
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When two opposing sides meet in battle, the one without an enemy will be victorious.
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An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.
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Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.
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People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders.
