Lech Walesa Quotes

I am no politician.

Lech Walesa

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • People
  • Long
  • Action

• I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Connection

• I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Want
  • Perfect

• I make sure I eat well without depriving myself of the things that I love: a cheeseburger and fries, creamy white-truffle pasta, bowls of ice cream. Everything in moderation, but I indulge at least three times a week.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Eat
  • Sure
  • Least

• Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Day

• I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Morning

• I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Star

• Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Knowledge
  • Noise
  • Both

• Few things are as essential as education.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Education
  • Things
  • Few

• I've never been fired in my life.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Life
  • Never
  • My Life

• Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Death

• I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Animal
  • Teenager
  • Research

• I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Food
  • Crazy
  • See

• The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Sun
  • West
  • Horizon

• It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Know
  • Yourself

• We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Princess
  • Island
  • Ships

• My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Family
  • Ancestors
  • Royal

• I would never be in a film just for the sake of being in a film, so I am waiting for the right role to come along.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Waiting

• Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • Good
  • High
  • Culture

• Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.

  

  Mark Shriver
  • God
  • Dad
  • Joy

• The moment you think you're not funny, the next funny thing you think of is just around the corner. So you have to appreciate the natural breathing patterns, the ups and downs. There are moments you're going to be hilarious and moments where you're going to be not so hilarious. That's just the way it works.

  

  James Adomian
  • Funny
  • Moments
  • Hilarious

• The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Truth
  • Courage
  • Acceptance

• I am no politician.

  

  Lech Walesa