Vaclav Havel Quotes
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Carli Lloyd -
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.
Frances McDormand -
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.
Gary Weiss -
The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
Rainn Wilson -
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.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
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.
Orlando Bloom -
I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
Mal Peet -
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
Ian Mcewan -
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.
Zooey Deschanel -
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.
Aaron Paul
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Gary Weiss -
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.
Samira Wiley -
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
Sam Raimi -
Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
Dan Brown -
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.
Mac DeMarco -
I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
Daddy Yankee
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Well, I suppose I've never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don't get cabs; I'm on the Tube with my Oyster card.
Agyness Deyn -
Life doesn't end at 30.
Jeanne Moreau -
I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
Quentin Blake -
Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feigned deaths to die.
John Donne -
Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.
Vaclav Havel