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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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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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
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It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.
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I'm a fan of supersymmetry, largely because it seems to be the only route by which gravity can be brought into the scheme. It's probably not even enough, but it's a way forward to get gravity involved. If you have supersymmetry, then there are more of these particles. That would be my favourite outcome.
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Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.
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I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.
