Vaclav Havel Quotes
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I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
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I've got to pay $5 for gas just like everybody else.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
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Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.
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A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
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The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.
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Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?
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I've said to [Donald Trump], and I think others have said to him that the day that he is the President of the United States, there are world capitals and financial markets and people all around the world who take really seriously what he says, and in a way that's just not true before you're actually sworn in as president.
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As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.
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I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.
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If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
