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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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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Years ago, I tore out a Nike ad featuring Allyson Felix and Maria Sharapova looking super fierce and tough. I always told my family that I wanted to be like them someday, so to come home to my apartment and see boxes of Nike gear stacked higher than my doorknob is pretty much a dream come true.
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Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.
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It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.
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We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.
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The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes.
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I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.
