Milan Kundera Quotes
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.
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You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing - in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic - that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.
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Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
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Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.
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Tourette's is involuntary in that it is impossible not to do. And it's torture to know what you're doing and not be able to stop it.
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You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
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What's so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We're just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.
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Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.
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I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.
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It's no fun being lonely.
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In Spanish, I record a lot of single-voice tracks, and in English, I 'stack' a lot of voices, so it's very different, and I think I got so used to recording in Spanish for six years that it was really refreshing and challenging to get in and record 'Double Vision' in English.
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You have to remember that goodbyes are temporary because no one ever really leaves and nothing lasts forever. People are always with us, because they are in our hearts and in our memory. The only thing we can depend on is change... Life is just a series of moments -- a string of pearls that make up the necklace of your life and so every once in a while, to complete the circle, you need to end a chapter.
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A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
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For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad … but I could never find me a double hammock.
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I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.
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I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.
