Karel Capek Quotes
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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You see, there weren't these magazines like 'Heat' in my day. Always waiting to trip up these pretty girls and make them seem something horrible, something to make them look stupid and small and ugly and disgusting.
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Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?
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I would like to go down as the greatest receiver in this game. I'm not doing all this hard work for nothing.
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People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.
