Milan Kundera Quotes

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

Milan Kundera

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• Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Understand
  • Discipline

• Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Life
  • Black
  • Culture

• I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!

  

  Manika
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Secret

• My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Jewish

• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Growing
  • Value

• I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Think
  • Know
  • Personality

• And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Age

• My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Try

• When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Attention
  • Pay
  • Talk

• Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Successful
  • Wonderful

• I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop's ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Think
  • Responsibility
  • Fans

• Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • People
  • Real
  • Just

• What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Today
  • Want
  • Period

• I have my fashion empire to build.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Fashion
  • Build
  • Empire

• Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Everyone
  • Started
  • Rumors

• Jonas Salk showed that a killed virus vaccine would work and would be damned effective in fighting disease. This was something that virologists of the day pooh-poohed. And Salk proved them wrong.

  

  David Oshinsky
  • Work
  • Fighting

• One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Done
  • Giving

• When you do something that people watch and enjoy as children, that's great because it stays with you, throughout your life. The things you loved as a child stay with you, and so do the people who were in those things.

  

  Catherine O'Hara
  • People
  • Children
  • Enjoy

• I love key lime pie, although it's never made the proper way.

  

  Paula Poundstone

• The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • People
  • Things
  • Liberty