Lech Walesa Quotes

I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.

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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.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • History
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Weapons
  • Favor
  • Bat

• 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.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Most
  • Cells
  • DNA

• 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.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • Feeling
  • Him

• I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • War
  • Lost
  • Friend

• 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.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Spring
  • New York
  • Down

• I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Myself

• Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Avoid
  • Context
  • Repeating

• Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Men
  • Women
  • Kids

• A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Different
  • You
  • Direction

• 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.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Musicians

• 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?

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • People
  • Ego

• The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Guy

• Professional people build relationships by doing the work together.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

  

  James Galway
  • Running

• Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

  

  Laurie R. King

• You're under the gun at all times because it's live TV. A lot of time, between dress and air, you're having to come with an entire ending to your sketch that gets an even better, bigger laugh - which is terrifying... People are filing into the audience, and you're writing a new joke for the end of it.

  

  Paula Pell
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.

  

  William James
  • Matter
  • Belief
  • Extremes

• I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.

  

  Carrie Nation
  • Women
  • Air
  • Hell

• Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Fall
  • Vulnerability

• I've never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He's made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin, feminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mindnumbingly boring.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Movies
  • Boring

• I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.

  

  Lech Walesa