Vaclav Havel Quotes
We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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My style advice to other girls is to be experimental but always have a 'home base' and stick with your comfort style.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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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 mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.
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Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.
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If people want to simulate a godly lifestyle - great. If they don't - good luck with that.
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Commoners bones may have been dug up again and slung into a charnel house: for royalty, burial was for ever.
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Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget.
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We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost.
