Vaclav Klaus Quotes

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

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• We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Up
  • Want
  • Way

• I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • True
  • Game
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• It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Work
  • Different
  • Know

• In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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  • Become
  • Reputation

• I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Different
  • Think
  • Style

• If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Economic

• I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Think
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  • Dead

• Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

  

  Isaac Goldberg
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  • Diplomacy
  • Nicest

• The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.

  

  Usher
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  • Know

• Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.

  

  Valerie June
  • Good
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  • Like

• I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
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  • Own
  • My Own

• I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

  

  Carly Patterson
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• I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Month

• I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.

  

  T. J. Perkins
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  • Care
  • Movies

• The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Power
  • Peace
  • Economic

• In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • America
  • Movie
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• I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

  

  Adam Jones
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  • Player
  • Guitar

• One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

  

  Harold Pinter
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  • Looking
  • Speech

• Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • You
  • Security
  • Lawyers

• As you leave these gates and re-enter society, one thing is certain: Everyone out there is going to hate you. Never tell anyone in a roadside diner that you went to Harvard. In most situations the correct response to where did you go to school is, "School? Why, I never had much in the way of book learnin' and such." Then, get in your BMW and get the hell out of there.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • School
  • Why
  • Book

• You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Paris

• Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.

  

  E. L. James
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  • Me
  • Laugh

• I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
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