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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