Andrzej Wajda Quotes

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

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• You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
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• We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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• I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
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• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

  Beck Bennett
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• Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

  

  Samuel Alexander
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• Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.

  

  Facundo Pieres
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• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

  Laila Ali
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• A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

  

  Hans Haacke
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• Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
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• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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  • Deep

• I don't move away from grief, rather through it.

  

  Taya Kyle
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• You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • You
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• Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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• Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.'

  

  Chris Christie
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• I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am.

  

  Richard Schiff
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• I didn't think there was life after modelling, believe me. It's a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can't do something.

  

  Carol Alt
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• If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.

  

  Jeff Goodell
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• I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
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  • Age
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• Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

  

  Andrzej Wajda
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