Karel Capek Quotes
If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. But the American drama, especially when it involves race, is always more complicated than that.
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Shows like 'Top Chef,' 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world on a whole, but you have to be cautious it doesn't get out of hand.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
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If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
