Milos Forman Quotes

Ideological pressure is much more crippling than commercial pressure. Crippling to your own freedom of thinking and creating, crippling the final results. If you wanted to succeed during the really hard-line totalitarian regime, you have to make so many compromises to please the censors that you don't recognize the original idea from the final result.

Milos Forman

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• A president can't go to every memorial service.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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  • President
  • Memorial

• A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

  

  Man Ray
  • Needs
  • Him
  • Creator

• I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Day
  • Everyday
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• Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Women
  • Stand
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• Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • World
  • College
  • Graduation

• I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Amazing

• I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Old
  • Three

• Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Mind
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• You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Family
  • Religion
  • Need

• You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Artist
  • Body
  • Yourself

• Lo que me digo, ¿quién lo dice?

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Write
  • Critics
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• You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Fall
  • Everything
  • Stairs

• A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have a bunch of different ventures.

  

  Kanye West
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Artist

• Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Death
  • Free
  • Bed

• A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Understand
  • Misanthrope

• What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • She
  • Person

• There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Power
  • History
  • Voluntarily

• Fixing the pension system was one of the biggest problems Rhode Island faced.

  

  Gina Raimondo
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  • Problem solving
  • Rhode Island

• [The crowd] will finally succeed in remembering only the simplest concepts repeated a thousand times.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Succeed
  • Concepts
  • Remembering

• No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Relationships
  • Compromise

• Getting tired of sitting, staring at my computer screen, day after day, where everyone is two-dimensional, reduced to an avatar photo, status updates, or maybe some carefully curated vacation photos. There's something exhausting about that after a while. I found myself wanting to hear voices.

  

  Brad Listi
  • Computer
  • Vacation
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• Ideological pressure is much more crippling than commercial pressure. Crippling to your own freedom of thinking and creating, crippling the final results. If you wanted to succeed during the really hard-line totalitarian regime, you have to make so many compromises to please the censors that you don't recognize the original idea from the final result.

  

  Milos Forman
  • Succeed
  • Compromise
  • Ideological