Bohumil Hrabal Quotes
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.
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I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear.
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Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
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Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!
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I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.
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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.
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It's a crapshoot. You're dealing with kids, 17 to 21 years old. That's a lot of pressure. Think of all the pressure -- and the money that is bet on it, legally and illegally. It's amazing.
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I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.
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You'd have thought they'd have been on about Sir Elton John, and the fantastic goals David has scored which have got us through to the World Cup. But what they were really interested in was that I was holding a bag that had 'Sex' written on it. It's quite bizarre.
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I think it's because we're not purists, we're open to all kinds of music. We're not afraid to take chances and we work really hard, and we gig relentlessly, we've been very active in the studio, we're active with the record labels that we have. So I think it's like a full-on assault. We've stalled in many different directions and it kept us in the limelight for so many years.
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Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.
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Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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Our team has a chance to really establish the Purdue program. I expect our men to finish in the top three.
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I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.
