Vaclav Havel Quotes
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
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I read Leisel Jones' book. She said she retired at 27 and said, 'Now what?' because swimming was the biggest part of her life. So for me, that's why I'm keeping up my studies on the side even if it's going to take a bit longer than normal, but at least I'll have it.
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As for pressure, there's always the desire to give my best to every film. After all, so many people put in so much of hard work.
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Adversity will do something too you or for you....
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Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.
