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.
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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.
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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.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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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.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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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.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
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I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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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.
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I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.
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Men don't understand anything about women and women understand nothing about men. And it's better that way.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.
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I'd call the play-by-play of the action when me and my friends played street ball.
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
