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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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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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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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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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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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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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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Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?
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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
