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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• I was deeply involved in the decision that President Jimmy Carter made to boycott the Olympics in Moscow in 1980.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Decision
  • Made
  • Deeply

• No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

  

  Antonin Artaud

• Some people think of feminine as just being pretty and quiet and sweet, but I also think being feminine is being angry and also being sexy and aggressive and passionate.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Sweet

• The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

  

  Mary McLeod Bethune
  • Heart
  • Girl
  • Single

• I would love to be the president of United States, and I think I would be good at it, but it's too late, and it is too hard.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Good

• I've certainly been someone who has loved to mine the trials and tribulations of growing up in general, and the people who are in our lives, and I don't mind pulling from them and writing things down on my phone that my family says.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• Yes, I could win the Olympics. I hope to, and that's what I'm training for. But it's really going to come down to me racing on that day... Just being really calm and mature about what the reality is - that's my strategy.

  

  Mark de Jonge
  • Hope
  • Reality
  • Training

• I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them.

  

  Gail Honeyman

• 'One Million Bullets' is my baby.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Baby

• There's no counting the number of times the media have asked, 'Will this be the thing that drives Donald Trump's supporters away from him? Is this finally the time?'

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Time
  • Trump

• The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Today
  • Responsibility
  • Helping

• When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran
  • People
  • Together
  • Future

• I remember my father taking us to meeting with lawyers, interviews with immigration officers, doing everything he could to get us that treasured Green Card - and the happiness, the sense of relief, when he finally did - we knew that we were welcome now, and we would be welcome tomorrow.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Green

• Sometimes indifference can be so erotic. I think the people who are most dismissive of you get the most of your attention.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • People
  • Attention
  • Indifference

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

  

  Milan Kundera
  • People
  • Things
  • Liberty