Milan Kundera Quotes
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.
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A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.
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I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.
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Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.
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American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
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Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
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I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.
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I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.
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A man has to know his limitations.
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My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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One of my favorite people I got to meet was my childhood idol, Vincent Price. I got to not only meet him, but become friendly with him before he passed away.
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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
