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Quotes by Polish Authors
"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."
"I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world."
"I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them."
"There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state."
"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."
"He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor."
"The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives."
"Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make."
"It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century."
"Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above."
"Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort."
"First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical."
"Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero."
"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."
"Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that."
"I may be boring, but it would be to wake up by my dog and then my daughter."
"The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath."
"Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavour to do, he drowns--nicht wahr?. . . No! I tell you! The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands and feet in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up. So if you ask me--how to be?"
"Never test another man by your own weakness."
"More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise."
"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded."
"Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made."
"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."
"No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority."
"When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers."
"A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway."
"God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't."
"The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence."
"God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance."
"In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film."
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