Milan Kundera Quotes
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
Quotes to Explore
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.
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When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game.
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The process of getting conscious, for me, was a very, very uncomfortable, disturbing, and sometimes physically painful process. And so that's the standard to which I write, because it was what I've experienced over my time.
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I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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Bob Forestier had pretended for so many years to be a gentleman that in the end, forgetting that it was all a fake, he had found himself driven to act as in that stupid, conventional brain of his he thought a gentleman must act. No longer knowing the difference between sham and real, he had sacrificed his life to a spurious heroism.
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I consider not what Parmenion should receive, but what Alexander should give.
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Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.
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I see flaws as a kind of beauty.
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Every day, the hard-working men and women of Alabama's Department of Environmental Management are on the ground, protecting Alabama's rivers and lakes in a way that is beneficial to all. EPA should support them in that work, not make it more difficult.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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As a national security aid, I worked with our military to strengthen our national defense.
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The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
