Lech Walesa Quotes
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.
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The Populist Caucus aims to bring people together around middle class issues, so we can tolerate a little difference of opinion.
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If you stay on the air for 18 years, people know you.
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After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
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I don't want to carry the burden of a flop. I don't fall into that trap.
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I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
