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Quotes by Polish Authors
"I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay."
"You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also."
"All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look."
"As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world."
"And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream."
"I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing."
"Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end."
"I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles."
"I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle."
"It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism."
"This, let me remind you again, is a love story; you can see it by the imbecility, not a repulsive imbecility, the exalted imbecility of these proceedings, this station in torchlight, as if they had come there on purpose to have it out for the edification of concealed murderers."
"Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham."
"As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement."
"I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know."
"France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything."
"The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?"
"An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation."
"It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker."
"It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once."
"Never test another man by your own weakness."
"By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter. Steal a horse straight out. Very well. He has done it. Perhaps he can ride. But there is a way of looking at a halter that would provoke the most charitable of saints into a kick."
"To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly."
"The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience."
"At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active."
"Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle."
"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens."
"I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in."
"And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future."
"And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole."
"A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were."
"On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa."
"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."
"I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction."
"There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God."
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