Polish Quotes - Page 3

• Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

  Ruby Wax

  Jealous, My Boyfriend, Chicago

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• Call upon Angels to polish the jewels inside your thoughts and feelings, for within every fear or worry is a shining energy of love. Today be aware of your amazing power of manifestation. Know that in everything you think and feel, the entire universe is fully supporting you.

  Doreen Virtue

  Angel, Thinking, Jewels

  Doreen Virtue (2008). “Daily Guidance from Your Angels”, p.33, Hay House, Inc

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• Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Roots, Important, Film

  "Berlin Q&A: Director Malgorzata Szumowska". Interview with Kirill Galestski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 13, 2013.

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• This mixture of Polish, not Polish, of being European, gives me a perspective to see Poland through "new eyes" - paradoxically, more closely... because it's from a kind of distance.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Distance, Eye, Perspective

  "Berlin Q&A: Director Malgorzata Szumowska". Interview with Kirill Galestski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 13, 2013.

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• However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Actors, Filmmaking

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• Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Adults, Cinema, Our Society

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• 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.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Military, Support, Magnitude

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

  Geezer Butler

  Song, Rehearsal, Knocking

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• If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling

  Geezer Butler

  Feelings, Too Much, Ifs

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• Strike while the iron is hot.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, Iron Will

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Barry Windeatt (2008). “Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation”, p.193, Oxford University Press

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• The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Would Be, Actors

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• On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

  Andrzej Wajda

  School, Hands, Adults

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• I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.

  David Knopfler

  People, Tears, Weakness

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• A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

  Bill Walsh

  Sports, Book, Reality

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• I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.

  Lech Walesa

  People, Understanding, Feelings

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• I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

  Lech Walesa

  Sympathy, Army, Past

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• My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.

  Lech Walesa

  Country, Europe, May

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• A Polish man had a bandage on each ear. What happened? "I was ironing, and the phone rang!" "What about the other ear?" "Had to call the doctor!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• A Polish man had his vasectomy done at Sears. Now when he makes love, the garage door goes up.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.

  Garrison Keillor

  Hard Work, Eye, Boys

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

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• The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed.

  John Newton

  Art, Hands, Giving

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• In Poland, some people think that I'm kind of scandalous because I'm a woman who should stay at home with her kids instead of making movies about what I want and, even worse, addressing Polish taboos like church, homosexuals and history.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Kids, Home, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Being an elite performer on the playing field of life is not about being perfect. Rather, it is about cultivating a mental focus towards mastery in every area of your life. It is about commiting yourself, from the core of your heart, to manifest and polish your highest talents and become the person you are destined to be.

  Robin Sharma

  Heart, Perfect, Focus

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• We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling.

  Paul Arden

  Smell, People, Car

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• Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

  Kathryn Kuhlman

  Men, Grind, Made

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