Vaclav Havel Quotes
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.Vaclav Havel
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Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
Randall Park -
My hunger is always there.
Usain Bolt -
I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
Dan Stevens -
The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
Balthazar Getty -
I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
Baltasar Kormakur -
Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
Samuel P. Huntington
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
Samuel Alexander -
I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
Ed Rendell -
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
E. M. Forster -
When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
I've been training quite hard.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
Finn Jones -
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold -
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Florence King -
I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
Jackie Chan -
Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
Tamsin Greig -
I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
Barbara Bush
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Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
Patrick Swayze -
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Plautus -
A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility.
George C. Wolfe -
For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our Lord appointed, and receive it with a right preparation and disposition of mind, but upon the supernatural blessing that goes along with it, and makes it effectual to those spiritual ends for which it was appointed.
John Tillotson -
I will need good friends around me if I am to survive my first year of politics. My father described it as walking barefoot in a nest of vipers.
Conn Iggulden -
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
Vaclav Havel