Karel Capek Quotes
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I'm no producer's kid.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
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Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
