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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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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Though some choices may slow our journey, every path we take gives us more familiarity with how our actions affect the world around us, giving us more opportunities to learn how to help ourselves and others.
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I'll show you just how cruel a sport basketball is.
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When you're shopping you forget about eating!
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I was scared every time I put on a uniform and stepped on the field. I’m scared every day I go into the studio and I come on stage because I fear that I will not live up to what is expected. I fear that somebody who spent a lot of money to come into our studio, to come to New York and they’ll walk away and go, ‘I could have stayed at home.’ I feared that as a player a fan would come to the stands and I wouldn’t perform well. Just the way I’m built. I’m more scared of failure than I am excited about the accolades that come with success.
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I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.
