Lech Walesa Quotes
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.
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Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
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When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.
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I have been very lucky - all the jobs I've done have been with lovely people. In fact, I've been on many where I've just laughed uncontrollably the whole time.
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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
