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I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.


Roman Polanski


#cut #dirty #head #his #how

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.


Roman Polanski


#fully #i #made #me #never

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.


Roman Polanski


#go #i #i am #man #movies

Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.


Roman Polanski


#boring #i #incredibly #interesting #love

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.


John Charles Polanyi


#civil #civil society #international #nations #new

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.


John Charles Polanyi


#better #civilized #couched #die #flight

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.


Alexander Pope


#being in love #ever #friend #hate #hates

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.


John Charles Polanyi


#coerce #derives #knowledge #others #power

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.


John Charles Polanyi


#assessment #criterion #insist #instead #largely

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.


John Charles Polanyi


#impossible #nice #nice things #only #powerful






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