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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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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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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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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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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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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I'm kind of a nervous guy. I know on television I look like I'm half asleep, but inside I'm going about 100 miles an hour.
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Professional people build relationships by doing the work together.
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Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
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Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.
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The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
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Here [in Wonder Boys] I had this group of characters where you didn't know which were the important ones or what direction they were heading.
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I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosexual orientation as the norm from which to start as the given. And everything that fell outside of that was not acceptable.
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.
