Marek Belka Quotes
As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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While faith need not be monolithic - it can motivate both voting behavior and character development - focus matters. A Christianity constantly looking for political answers to moral and spiritual problems gives believers an excuse to blame other people when they should be looking in the mirror.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
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The place was part museum, part library, and part archive; I loved it at first sight...and smell, for here there were thousands of printed books, many very old indeed, and nothing smells quite as wonderful as old books.
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I am so not technically proficient at all.
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Relationships are hard, so you have to know what type of man you want by your side and what their values are, what is important in his life.
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This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
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We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.
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As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.
