Karel Capek Quotes
Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I'm not graceful.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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You can't move mountains by whispering at them.
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I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.
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The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor to be counteracted by the utmost efforts of human power or wisdom, resignation, and as far as the strength of our reason and religion can carry us, a cheerful acquiescence to the Divine Will, is what we are to aim.
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Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
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On Roger Douglas: 'He's like rust, he never sleeps.'
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Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
