Vaclav Havel Quotes
Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
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It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final.
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As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.
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If a thousand citizens were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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Every time I think of Doug Wilson, I think 'pathetic.' When it comes between something for himself or something for righteousness, he'll choose himself.
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I look fashionable every day. And the pendulum swings between more, or less, edgy when I'm with bankers.
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I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!
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The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.
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God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.
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There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the shifting tonalities of light that transform the domestic and ordinary into the strange and extraordinary that, combined with tenderness of address, approach the worshipful and make a number of these poems so moving and distinctive.
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I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
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If you only share your best pictures, or your Facetuned self, the thought of people seeing you as you truly are can be scary.
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Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.
