Lech Walesa Quotes
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Being evil is easy.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.
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History's a resource.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.
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There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.
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Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.
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Poles finished communism, and Great Britain profited significantly from this.
