Milos Forman Quotes
The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.
Quotes to Explore
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
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I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
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Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
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I have good stamina and good endurance.
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Rules emerge as a spontaneous order–they are found–not deliberately designed by one calculating mind. Initially constructivist institutions undergo evolutionary change adapting beyond the circumstances that gave them birth. What emerges is a form of 'social mind' that solves complex organization problems without conscious cognition.
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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
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Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
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Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive.
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And what did the banks do to earn this perpetually flowing river of wealth? Did they lend out their own capital obtained through investment of stockholders? Did they lend out the hard-earned savings of their depositors? No, neither of these were their major source of income. They simply waved the magic wand called fiat money.
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The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant.
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I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.
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I've been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you're comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone's going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.
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I think the idea of being on stage and playing for people, and being able to inject a little bit of joy into their lives is a really exciting concept for me. That's definitely why I make music. It's never been for any kind of materialistic reasons, so that thought of being able to be up on stage, and being able to give something to someone in a moment of need for them - that gets me up in the morning; that really excites me.
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The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.
