Lech Walesa Quotes
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
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I've always wanted to make a record.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.
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Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.
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I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
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I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.
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Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.
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Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.
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I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.
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In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
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Every now and then I get angry, but fortunately, when I do, it's like watching a little dog try to attack something - it's something I'm not very good at.
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They say what I did was ego-driven and name-dropping …Damn right it is. Who am I going to write about? People I didn't meet?
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So long as man is protected by madness he functions and flourishes, but when he frees himself from the fruitful tyranny of fixed ideas, he is lost, ruined.
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Berkshire Hathaway can transfer excess capital from businesses that don't need it to businesses that do need it, tax free and in a way that enhances compound annual growth rates.
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McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.
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Good taste is as tiring as good company.
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Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.
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I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.
