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Quotes by Polish Authors
"I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking."
"The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn."
"I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit."
"The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction."
"Will Smith is young, he's cool and my kids have his CDs."
"So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before."
"For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them."
"You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems."
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."
"A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway."
"The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream."
"I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name."
"But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons."
"Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy."
"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
"I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability."
"Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema."
"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship."
"They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance."
"I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art."
"The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it."
"It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment."
"Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars."
"You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers."
"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."
"Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire."
"Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived."
"I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."
"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."
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