Milos Forman Quotes

Definitely it would be foolish to try and make my Czech films here in America, as foolish as it is when some Czech filmmakers try to make movies of America in Czechoslovakia. It was always abysmal stuff.

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• Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
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• The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
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• We should be individualizing instruction, utilizing that data to actually give teachers the tools necessary to meet the needs of a very diverse group of kids which exists in every class.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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• Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
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• We are made up of multiple emotions. And it would be unnatural to completely eliminate even one or two or three of those. It's impossible. You'd become a robot if the emotions weren't there.

  

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• The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a poo, Todd." "Shutup, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

  

  Margery Allingham
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• We always need friends. And I think we come out of these highly social environments with university, college, wherever we were, and getting to a new city could be daunting. It can be lonely, and it's almost easier to find a date than it is to find a friend.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
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• I had rather attempt something great and fail, than to attempt nothing at all and succeed.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
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• The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

  

  William Hazlitt
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• I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.

  

  Will Self
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• What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• It was 2002, we all got guitars for Christmas and started playing in my garage that summer, rehearsed there and in a warehouse for a bit for about a year. We did our first gig in June 2003 and we played a few gigs in and around Sheffield for a bit then started doing gigs outside of Sheffield about this time last year, recording demos while all this was going on.

  

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• Good friends always know when you need a cup of tea.

  

  Katrina Mayer
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• After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning capacity alone, which is no more than some one-twentieth of my capacity for living. What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
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• Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime. ... You probably won't see it on a bumper sticker, but sex kills.

  

  Edna Buchanan
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• Definitely it would be foolish to try and make my Czech films here in America, as foolish as it is when some Czech filmmakers try to make movies of America in Czechoslovakia. It was always abysmal stuff.

  

  Milos Forman
  • Foolish
  • Filmmaker