Lech Walesa Quotes
Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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La soumission aux données de l'expérience est la règle d'or qui domine toute discipline scientifique.
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Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.
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If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
