Milan Kundera Quotes
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Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.
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Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.
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Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals.
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Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.
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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
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But what is woman? - only one of Nature's more agreeable blunders.
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In love there is no because.
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We're in good shape and the guys understand the plan. It just gets down to making plays and handling the different wrinkles.
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Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out.
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That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down.
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As an actor, I usually try and keep my motivation within the context of what the character is going through.
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Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
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And he wants you to keep that at the front of your mind? He wants you to stay focused on the darkest seasons of your life? How could that possibly do any good?' . . . He wants you to remember who delivered you from that time. That's the point of holding on to memory: delivery, not darkness.
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One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
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Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view, the rights of men, and the authority of the people?
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In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
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There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.
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I'm lucky to have so many supportive, inspirational people in my life.
