Milos Forman Quotes
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Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.
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Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.
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Water is my main state. If I time before I run - like, to digest, like, a good hour and a half or so to digest, I'll eat oatmeal. but I'm a vegetarian for the most part, so in general, I just eat grains and vegetables and fruit.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
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I really feel it's time to dissolve the current relationship of governor and lieutenant governor by running as a ticket.
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And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.
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And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.
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I drank that sentence and began to glow.
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Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
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The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.
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You going to call me arrogant for believing in myself? Come on! It's a competitive sport. Rappin' is the closest thing to boxing. Jay-Z said that. You gotta fight every day.
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I do not think that any man should be attacked because of his race or religion, or that he should be immune from attack because of race or religion.
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Memories are doing funny things to us.
