Vaclav Havel Quotes
Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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I want to play James Bond – are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
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I'm very much into 'The Bachelor,' that is for sure.
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We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.
