Vaclav Havel Quotes
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.
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I've always loved the English language. I just like words, you know?
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Some readers will no doubt say that a devil is inside me; and though my faith is a bit like Magic FM in the Chilterns, in that the signal comes and goes, I can only hope that isn't so.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.
