Vaclav Havel Quotes
Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.
Quotes to Explore
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.
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We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don't always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn't always reflect our beliefs. ... We wage war between the person we are and the person we hope to become.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.
