Vaclav Havel Quotes
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Quotes to Explore
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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It's so important to get your skin to look even, whether it's with a MAC Cosmetics glow, a Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer, or even just a solid foundation. Start off with a good prep and a good primer.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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I merely repeat the old joke. ‘It’s about respecting other people’s property. I make it my property so that I can properly respect it.
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I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.
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The last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.
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I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
