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.

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• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

  Barbara McClintock
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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.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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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.

  

  Zachary Levi
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• I don't want to hear about my death.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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• N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.

  

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• It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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• There are a thousand ways to play any role.

  

  Val Kilmer
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• I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

  

  Carla Hall
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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.

  

  Ralph Ellison
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• Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.

  

  L. Wolfe Gilbert
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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.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
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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.

  

  Dane Cook
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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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

  

  Earl Weaver
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• I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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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?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

  

  Elizabeth Peyton
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• Bitcoin represents the first major breakthrough in economics and finance since double-entry bookkeeping was invented in 1494, and activists need to embrace its power.

  

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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.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • People
  • Humans
  • Oneself