Andrzej Wajda Quotes
In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
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I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect President Barack Obama!
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I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
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While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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A project like Pangea, which enables us to enter in to the situations of others, imaginatively, is fulfilling what the religions call the Golden Rule... going into one's own experience, and going into other's experience, and seeing the world from another perspective - that's what we desperately need in our dangerously polarized world.
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In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
