Marek Hlasko Quotes
I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
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Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.
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There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment. When a man is contented he goes to sleep. Voltaire had no chance to be contented, and so he wrote eternally and unceasingly, more than any other man in the history of the world.
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What is the point in punishing a country?
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Drama moves us: conflict is an inherent pattern in reality. Harmony moves us too: faced as we are with ever imminent disorder. It is a powerful idea. Van Gogh's drama and Seurat's silent harmony were born in the same country and epoch: but they do not contradict one another; they refer to different patterns among those which constitute reality.
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We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.
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Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!
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I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.
