Milan Kundera Quotes
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Edmond de Goncourt -
I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
Tammy Duckworth -
I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
Ban Ki-moon -
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Samuel Johnson -
George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
Gary Coleman -
Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
Edmund Morgan
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After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
Otto Schily -
The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
Karolina Kurkova -
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Larry Wall -
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Walter Savage Landor -
I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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McLaren was a risky project because they were completely new, but we are one team - we win and we lose together.
Fernando Alonso -
I'm not a homosexual, but if I can be an ally for that issue, I think it's fantastic.
Larry Wilmore -
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Ovid -
I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.
Gabriela Sabatini -
People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
Madeleine Albright -
I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
Major Owens
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Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper
Mother Teresa -
Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
Fay Wray -
Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.
Marilyn Monroe -
'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
Victor LaValle -
I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.
Sarah Chalke -
To laugh is to live profoundly.
Milan Kundera