Vaclav Havel Quotes
The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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I can't just say yes to a movie. I have to be really passionate about it.
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I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.
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Living in the world of the workshop, which I do as a teacher, you have to be articulate about craft. And that often involves imposing analysis on work that's in a pretty raw state.
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We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
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There is nothing I can do to ever make up for that kick, ... But that happened. I take responsibility for that. In the future there are going to be opportunities, and I look forward to that.
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The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.
