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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When you get to all right, take a good look around and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Ideology claims to be binding for the whole society. This development leads to typical problems. As the complexity of society increases, so do the demands upon ideology as a schema for solving problems; in particular, there occurs an unsurveyable increase in the interdependencies among the individual components of an ideology, whose consistency must continue to be maintained. Changes, accommodations, and renovations in an ideology become markedly dÃfficult, because every small step can have unforeseeable repercussions upon the premises appealed to. The burdens upon the reflexive and opportunistic mechanisms anchored in ideology then become excessive.
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Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
