Marketa Irglova Quotes
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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I never said half the things I said.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
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I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.
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Because of a great love, one is courageous.
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, 'What's the matter with you?' But I haven't ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don't really worry about it. If it's funny, I don't care.
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Being an actress my whole life, it feels so good to have a clean face when I'm off, so I'm not a big makeup wearer.
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I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
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As a youth, I and most of the other smarter kids in school got picked on by bullies. I was a big guy - even at a young age - and would take the beatings for my friends, who were often smaller and scrawnier.
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We must not be squeamish when we learn that a total of 17,000 have been shot. We are now duty bound to hold together, we who are gathered together here figure on Mr. Roosevelt's list of war criminals. I have the honour of being Number One.
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I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.
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Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.
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The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
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You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.
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The child protection system needs real changes and real solutions to underlying problems, not attacking symptoms with band-aids. It needs to prevent disturbing issues and tragic incidents from occurring rather than applying a cosmetic to a preventable wound. For that to happen the public's chief informant, the media, has to get into the game.
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Whatever I hear in my head is what I play.
