Milan Kundera Quotes
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
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My education was very tough.
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I represent the 'Wonder Woman' of the new world.
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Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.
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It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.
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When I was in Denver, guys came into the team, and we started at a pretty high level.
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Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason... The law, which is perfection of reason.
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Being genuinely humble and being myself has helped me succeed in my career.
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I drank too much, only champagne.
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David Harrington, who's the violinist and founder of Kronos, is a super open-minded and adventurous guy.
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You can't give up. If you set yourself a target, you've got to keep on until you achieve it. It's a matter of having pride in yourself.
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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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I have to look at myself in the mirror and tell myself that I'm beautiful, even if I don't necessarily believe it.
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I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.
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Body language and tone of voice - not words - are our most powerful assessment tools.
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Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
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Beauty is a rebellion against time.
