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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business."
"Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat."
"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words."
"Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties."
"There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory."
"There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down."
"The character of a people may be ruined by charity."
"But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home."
"Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it."
"My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory."
"Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics."
"The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences."
"I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country."
"And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet."
"I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together."
"Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend."
"I know nothing about sex, because I was always married."
"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
"Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well."
"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."
"I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power."
"In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution."
"The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned."
"A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense."
"If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home."
"Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line."
"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist."
"I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer."
"Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. Consequently, the only reasonable Course of action is to work for publicly legalized guarantees."
"It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me."
"And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry."
"If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics."
"How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public."
"We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't."
"If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly."
"But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it."
"Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse."
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