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Quotes by Polish Authors
"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."
"Cities are the greatest creations of humanity."
"The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart."
"You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also."
"In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust."
"I then remained in Berlin until Dec. 1938, spending my time between pictures at my villa on the Riviera."
"In the next shot the cameras zoomed to the fiancee who noticed the lights in the Czarina's room go out and the camera then turned to the pond where two goldfish were making love."
"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."
"As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement."
"The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations."
"In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings."
"Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena."
"Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made."
"However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared."
"We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past."
"Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site."
"We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres."
"Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations."
"Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve."
"God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance."
"There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital."
"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?"
"But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind."
"To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object."
"Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce."
"Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse."
"Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?"
"Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development."
"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."
"Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built."
"The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise."
"This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization."
"The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth."
"Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth."
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