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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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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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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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
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It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.
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All we need is good will, and we have to start working in a way that considers each other's interests [with U.S]. In my view, this is a mandatory condition.
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
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When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
