Vaclav Klaus Quotes

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.

Vaclav Klaus

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• With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.

  

  Imelda May
  • Great
  • Performance
  • Greatest

• When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Love
  • Teacher
  • Magic

• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.

  

  Barbara Block
  • Technology
  • Mysterious
  • Own

• When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Long
  • Play

• If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Time
  • House
  • You

• Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • Home
  • Football
  • Try

• I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Love
  • Science
  • Reading

• You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Problem
  • Mum

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Believe
  • Worst
  • Russia

• I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

  

  Iman
  • Sleep
  • Need
  • Lucky

• Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
  • Rock

• We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • Evil
  • Terrorism

• And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Responsibility
  • Problems

• I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Kids
  • Maternal

• The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Great
  • War
  • China

• Honestly, I wish I'd known just how hard it is and how competitive the acting world is. I took my time; I went at my own pace. That's been helpful over the years, but also, I didn't quite realize how incredible everyone else was going to be: the level of competition and everyone's skill.

  

  Max von Essen
  • Time
  • World
  • Wish

• In 2016, you shouldn't have to choose between succeeding at work and being there for your family.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Work
  • Family

• I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway, and I would disapprove of it.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Question
  • Determination

• Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Work
  • God
  • Heart

• To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Socialism