Lech Walesa Quotes
I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.
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My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.
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A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.
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My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA.
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When I decided to work with Krishna Vamsi, people around me were apprehensive about my decision. They warned me that I shouldn't work with an unsuccessful director.
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Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
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I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.
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Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy,
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It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest questions cleverly, and therefore make them unusually complicated. We should seek a simple solution.
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You should have the opportunity to be more than one person with different people because you have that within you. It's not like you're faking it. If everyone knows you so well and can always get a hold of you, then you're stuck to this thing that people think you are. You should have the opportunity to reinvent yourself. Because you do. Naturally.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
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I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.
