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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position."
"President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values."
"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."
"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."
"Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves."
"It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself."
"When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society."
"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."
"Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator."
"I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs."
"The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned."
"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."
"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."
"I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid."
"Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics."
"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."
"I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing."
"I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power."
"And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube."
"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."
"The only things you regret are the things you don't do."
"I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together."
"To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm."
"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."
"We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't."
"Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever."
"But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home."
"I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators."
"The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years."
"Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard."
"I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything."
"It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me."
"Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie."
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